Population vector analysis of primate mediodorsal thalamic activity during oculomotor delayed-response performance

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1313-1321

  Watanabe, Yumiko ^a,b   Takeda, Kazuyoshi ^a   Funahashi, Shintaro ^a,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Information processing; Population vector; Prefrontal cortex; Rhesus monkey; Thalamus; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CALCULATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; POPULATION VECTOR ANALYSIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; MACACA MULATTA; MENTAL RECALL; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THALAMUS;

EID: 66549109672     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn170     Document Type: Article

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