Correlated discharges in the primate prefrontal cortex before and after working memory training

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3538-3548

  Qi, Xue Lian ^a   Constantinidis, Christos ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning; Monkey; Neurophysiology; Principal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; INTERNEURON; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FIXATION, OCULAR; FRONTAL LOBE; INTERNEURONS; MACACA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

EID: 84870564133     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08267.x     Document Type: Article

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