Prefrontal activity predicts monkeys' decisions during an auditory category task

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2009, Pages

  Lee, Jung H ^a   Russ, Brian E ^a   Orr, Lauren E ^a   Cohen, Yale E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Category; Decision making; Phoneme; Prefrontal cortex; Rhesus

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349550799     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.07.016.2009     Document Type: Article

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