Detection of fixed and variable targets in the monkey prefrontal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2522-2534

  Kusunoki, Makoto ^a,b   Sigala, Natasha ^a,b   Gaffan, David ^b   Duncan, John ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Association memory; Behavioral category; Target detection; Unit activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 70349917963     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp005     Document Type: Article

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