What does the mediodorsal thalamus do?

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Mitchell, Anna S ^a   Chakraborty, Subhojit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal models; Executive function; Learning; Macaque; Memory; Prefrontal cortex; Rodent

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIENCEPHALON; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FRONTAL CORTEX; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; REVIEW; RODENT; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 84880630924     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00037     Document Type: Review

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