Working memory cells' behavior may be explained by cross-regional networks with synaptic facilitation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Verduzco Flores, Sergio ^a   Bodner, Mark ^a,b,c   Ermentrout, Bard ^a   Fuster, Joaquin M ^d   Zhou, Yongdi ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b MIND Research Institute   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WORKING MEMORY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 68349154439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006399     Document Type: Article

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