Working with memory: Evidence for a role for the medial prefrontal cortex in performance monitoring during spatial delayed alternation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3276-3288

  Horst, Nicole K ^a,b   Laubach, Mark ^a,b  

^a JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Error processing; Executive function; Persistent activity; Reward; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84871267336     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01192.2011     Document Type: Article

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