Complementary roles for primate frontal and parietal cortex in guarding working memory from distractor stimuli

Neuron

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 226-237

  Jacob, Simon Nikolas ^a,b   Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; INFORMATION; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SACCADIC SUPPRESSION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL INTRAPARIETAL AREA; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84903584679     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.05.009     Document Type: Article

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