The brain's router: A cortical network model of serial processing in the primate brain

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Zylberberg, Ariel ^a   Slezak, Diego Fernández ^a   Roelfsema, Pieter R ^b,c   Dehaene, Stanislas ^d,e   Sigman, Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN; MAMMALS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ATTENTIONAL BLINKS; CORTICAL NETWORK MODEL; DUAL-TASKS; HUMAN BRAIN; MASSIVELY PARALLELS; OBJECT CATEGORIZATION; OBJECTS RECOGNITION; PARALLEL PROCESSING; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SERIAL PROCESSING;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

AMPA RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTIVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; PROCESS MODEL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; REACTION TIME; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954604203     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000765     Document Type: Article

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