Monkeys quickly learn and generalize visual categories without lateral prefrontal cortex

Neuron

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 501-507

  Minamimoto, Takafumi ^a,b   Saunders, Richard C ^a   Richmond, Barry J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Sysneuro

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; EXPLICIT MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77953240459     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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