Neural correlates of task switching in prefrontal cortex and primary auditory cortex in a novel stimulus selection task for rodents

Neuron

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1157-1170

  Rodgers, Chris C ^a   DeWeese, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONNECTOME; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASK POSITIVE NETWORK;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84901747322     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.04.031     Document Type: Article

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