Bump attractor dynamics in prefrontal cortex explains behavioral precision in spatial working memory

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 431-439

  Wimmer, Klaus ^a   Nykamp, Duane Q ^a,b   Constantinidis, Christos ^c   Compte, Albert ^a  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUMP ATTRACTOR MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HAPLORHINI; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATISTICAL BIAS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84896739484     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3645     Document Type: Article

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