Synchronous Oscillatory Neural Ensembles for Rules in the Prefrontal Cortex

Neuron

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 838-846

  Buschman, Timothy J ^a,b,c   Denovellis, Eric L ^c   Diogo, Cinira ^a   Bullock, Daniel ^c   Miller, Earl K ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BETA RHYTHM; COLOR VISION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PERIODICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; ROC CURVE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84869823756     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.09.029     Document Type: Article

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