Representational switching by dynamical reorganization of attractor structure in a network model of the prefrontal cortex

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Katori, Yuichi ^a,b   Sakamoto, Kazuhiro ^c   Saito, Naohiro ^d   Tanji, Jun ^d   Mushiake, Hajime ^a,d   Aihara, Kazuyuki ^b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; MEAN FIELD THEORY; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS;

ACTION PLANNING; ATTRACTOR STRUCTURE; CELL ASSEMBLY; COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR; MODEL-BASED OPC; MULTIPLE SET; NETWORK MODELS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REORGANISATION; WORKING MEMORY;

SWITCHING;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HAPLORHINI; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PLANNING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPIKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; HAPLORHINI; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SYNAPSES;

EID: 81355164167     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002266     Document Type: Article

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