Prefrontal cortex activity during the discrimination of relative distance

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3968-3980

  Genovesio, Aldo ^a,b   Tsujimoto, Satoshi ^a,c   Wise, Steven P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HAPLORHINI; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952763271     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5373-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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