Prefrontal neurons transmit signals to parietal neurons that reflect executive control of cognition

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1484-1491

  Crowe, David A ^a,b,c   Goodwin, Shikha J ^a,b   Blackman, Rachael K ^a,b   Sakellaridi, Sofia ^a,b   Sponheim, Scott R ^a,b   MacDonald, Angus W ^a   Chafee, Matthew V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN CELL; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84884872502     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3509     Document Type: Article

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