Numerical rule coding in the prefrontal, premotor, and posterior parietal cortices of macaques

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6621-6630

  Vallentin, Daniela ^a,b   Bongard, Sylvia ^a   Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MACACA; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL CODING CAPACITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; JUDGMENT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 84860671304     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5071-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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