Delay activity in rodent frontal cortex during a simple reaction time task

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2859-2871

  Narayanan, Nandakumar S ^a   Laubach, Mark ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTRODES; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 66349085087     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90615.2008     Document Type: Article

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