Phasic activation of monkey locus ceruleus neurons by simple decisions in a forced-choice task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 44, 2004, Pages 9914-9920

  Clayton, Edwin C ^a   Rajkowski, Janusz ^a   Cohen, Jonathan D ^b   Aston Jones, Gary ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Psychiatry   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Electrophysiology; Norepinephrine; Primate; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; LOCUS COERULEUS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; REWARD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 7744219753     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2446-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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