Attracting dynamics of frontal cortex ensembles during memory-guided decision-making

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Balaguer Ballester, Emili ^a   Lapish, Christopher C ^b   Seamans, Jeremy K ^c   Durstewitz, Daniel ^a  

^a MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; NEURONS;

ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTICES; COGNITIVE PROCESSING; COGNITIVE TASK; DECISIONS MAKINGS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL; NEURAL ACTIVITY; NEURONAL DYNAMICS; PROPERTY;

DYNAMICS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL CORTEX; KERNEL METHOD; MEMORY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CINGULATE GYRUS; FRONTAL LOBE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RATS;

EID: 79958164664     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002057     Document Type: Article

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