Prefrontal Cortex and Rule Abstraction: Where and Whether? Theoretical Comment on Moore et al. (2009)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 459-462

  Baxter, Mark G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attention; frontal lobe; macaque; monkey; neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; FRONTAL LOBE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65249176220     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015236     Document Type: Article

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