Role of prefrontal persistent activity in working memory

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JAN2016, 2016, Pages

  Riley, Mitchell R ^a   Constantinidis, Christos ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Monkey; Neuron; Neurophysiology; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IDENTITY; MODEL; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STIMULUS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84953726034     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00181     Document Type: Review

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