Target detection by opponent coding in monkey prefrontal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 751-760

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

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE POSITION; FRONTAL CORTEX; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MONKEY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77649211142     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21216     Document Type: Article

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