Encoding Goals but Not Abstract Magnitude in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex

Neuron

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 656-662

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

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Olschefskie Institute for the Neurobiology of Knowledge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GOALS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84861444112     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.02.023     Document Type: Article

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