Preparing and selecting actions with neural populations: Toward cortical circuit mechanisms

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 40-46

  Murakami, Masayoshi ^a   Mainen, Zachary F ^a  

^a CHAMPALIMAUD CENTRE FOR THE UNKNOWN   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION PREPARATION; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POPULATION; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84922187240     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2015.01.005     Document Type: Review

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