Persistent neuronal firing in primary somatosensory cortex in the absence of working memory of trial-specific features of the sample stimuli in a haptic working memory task

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 664-676

  Wang, Liping ^a,b   Li, Xianchun ^a,b   Hsiao, Steven S ^b   Bodner, Mark ^b,c   Lenz, Fred ^b   Zhou, Yong Di ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MIND Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; FEMALE; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TACTILE MEMORY; TACTILE STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CUES; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 84863060708     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00169     Document Type: Article

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