Phasic Activation of Individual Neurons in the Locus Ceruleus/Subceruleus Complex of Monkeys Reflects Rewarded Decisions to Go But Not Stop

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 41, 2014, Pages 13656-13669

  Kalwani, Rishi M ^a   Joshi, Siddhartha ^b   Gold, Joshua I ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Countermanding; Norepinephrine; Saccade

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LATENT PERIOD; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STOP SIGNAL TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REWARD; SENSATION;

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; LOCUS COERULEUS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SENSATION;

EID: 84923445568     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2566-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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