Neuronal correlates of multiple top-down signals during covert tracking of moving objects in Macaque prefrontal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2043-2056

  Matsushima, Ayano ^a   Tanaka, Masaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; MACACA; MEMORY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; MACACA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84865512227     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00265     Document Type: Article

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