Reward acts as a signal to control delay-period activity in delayed-response tasks

NeuroReport

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 367-370

  Ichihara Takeda, Satoe ^a,b   Takeda, Kazuyoshi ^b   Funahashi, Shintaro ^b,c  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Control signal; Delay period activity; Delayed response task; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Reward related activity; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DELAY PERIOD ACTIVITY; EXPECTATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COGNITION; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REWARD; SACCADES;

EID: 77949468184     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32833776a3     Document Type: Article

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