A functional role for the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in non-spatial auditory cognition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 47, 2009, Pages 20045-20050

  Cohen, Y E ^a   Russ, B E ^b   Davis, S J ^a   Baker, A E ^c   Ackelson, A L ^c   Nitecki, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Non spatial processing; Spatial processing; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

PRIMATES;

EID: 73949118644     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907248106     Document Type: Article

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