Persistent spatial information in the frontal eye field during object-based short-term memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 10907-10914

  Clark, Kelsey L ^a   Noudoost, Behrad ^a   Moore, Tirin ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; ROC CURVE; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864856779     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1450-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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