Monkey prefrontal cortical pyramidal and putative interneurons exhibit differential patterns of activity between prosaccade and antisaccade tasks

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5516-5524

  Johnston, Kevin ^a,c   DeSouza, Joseph F X ^a,d   Everling, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INTERNEURON; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; HAPLORHINI; INTERNEURONS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SACCADES;

EID: 65649103332     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5953-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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