Neuronal activity of the anterior cingulate cortex during an observation-based decision making task in monkeys

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 48-61

  de Araujo, Mariana F P ^a   Hori, Etsuro ^a   Maior, Rafael S ^a,b   Tomaz, Carlos ^b   Ono, Taketoshi ^a   Nishijo, Hisao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Decision making; Medial prefrontal cortex; Mirror neurons; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HAPLORHINI; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MIRROR NEURON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEEDBACK; GYRUS CINGULI; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; NEURONS; OBSERVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOUCH;

EID: 84857268102     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.01.060     Document Type: Article

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