Distracters impair and create working memory-related neuronal activity in the prefrontal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2680-2689

  Artchakov, Denis ^a   Tikhonravov, Dmitry ^a   Ma, Yuanye ^b   Neuvonen, Tuomas ^a   Linnankoski, Ilkka ^a   Carlson, Synnöve ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Delayed matching to sample; Distraction; Primate; Single cell; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349909689     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp037     Document Type: Article

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