Single-cell coding of sensory, spatial and numerical magnitudes in primate prefrontal, premotor and cingulate motor cortices

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 241-254

  Eiselt, Anne Kathrin ^a,b   Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Frontal cortex; Magnitude representation; Monkey; Single neuron recording

Indexed keywords

CHLOROXYLENOL PLUS HYDROCORTISONE PLUS PRAMOCAINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL POPULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; FRONTAL CORTEX; HAPLORHINI; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STRENGTH; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MOTOR CORTEX; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALS; GYRUS CINGULI; JUDGMENT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84954397711     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4449-8     Document Type: Article

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