Prefrontal cortical microcircuits bind perception to executive control

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Opris, Ioan ^a   Santos, Lucas ^a   Gerhardt, Greg A ^b   Song, Dong ^c   Berger, Theodore W ^c   Hampson, Robert E ^a   Deadwyler, Sam A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MALE; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RHESUS MONKEY; ARTICLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84881149693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02285     Document Type: Article

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