Attentional Filtering of Visual Information by Neuronal Ensembles in the Primate Lateral Prefrontal Cortex

Neuron

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 202-215

  Tremblay, Sébastien ^a,b   Pieper, Florian ^c   Sachs, Adam ^d   Martinez Trujillo, Julio ^a,e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; LATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; OCULOGRAPHY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; MACACA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SACCADES; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84920808767     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.11.021     Document Type: Article

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