Structure of Spike Count Correlations Reveals Functional Interactions between Neurons in Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Area 8a of Behaving Primates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Leavitt, Matthew L ^a   Pieper, Florian ^b   Sachs, Adam ^c   Joober, Ridha ^d   Martinez Trujillo, Julio C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; INTERNEURON; MACACA; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SPIKE COUNT CORRELATION; SPIKE WAVE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84876446930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061503     Document Type: Article

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