Interareal spike-train correlations of anterior cingulate and dorsal prefrontal cortex during attention shifts

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 38, 2015, Pages 13076-13089

  Oemisch, Mariann ^a   Westendorff, Stephanie ^a   Everling, Stefan ^b   Womelsdorf, Thilo ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; Attention; Brain networks; Correlation; Prefrontal cortex; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FIRING RATE; FRONTOCINGULATE CORTEX; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; MACACA; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL ATTENTION; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CINGULATE GYRUS; CYTOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENT; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; GYRUS CINGULI; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REWARD; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84942155756     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1262-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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