Context-dependent computation by recurrent dynamics in prefrontal cortex

Nature

Volumn 503, Issue 7474, 2013, Pages 78-84

  Mante, Valerio ^a,c   Sussillo, David ^b   Shenoy, Krishna V ^a,b   Newsome, William T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMATE; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOISE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84887390404     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12742     Document Type: Article

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