Lesions of prefrontal cortex reduce attentional modulation of neuronal responses and synchrony in V4

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1003-1011

  Gregoriou, Georgia G ^a,b   Rossi, Andrew F ^c   Ungerleider, Leslie G ^c   Desimone, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM TRANSSECTION; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; HEMISPHERE; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL AREA V4; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ATTENTIONAL MODULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MACAQUE MODEL; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEURONAL SYNCHRONIZATION; REDUCTION; RHESUS MONKEY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEPTAL NUCLEI; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84903386666     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3742     Document Type: Article

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