Unilateral prefrontal lesions impair memory-guided comparisons of contralateral visual motion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 7095-7105

  Pasternak, Tatiana ^a   Lui, Leo L ^a,b   Spinelli, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cortical damage; Direction discrimination; Motion perception; Prefrontal cortex; Visual attention; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX LESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84929347064     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5265-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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