Basic mathematical rules are encoded by primate prefrontal cortex neurons

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

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2277-2282

  Bongard, Sylvia ^a   Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mathematics; Monkey; Number; Single cell

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 76649120573     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909180107     Document Type: Article

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