Stable numerosity representations irrespective of magnitude context in macaque prefrontal cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 866-874

  Moskaleva, Maria ^a   Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frontal lobe; Non human primate; Numerical cognition; Single cell recordings

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; STABLE NUMEROSITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

FRONTAL LOBE; NON-HUMAN PRIMATE; NUMERICAL COGNITION; SINGLE-CELL RECORDINGS;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84896720370     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12451     Document Type: Article

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