Neural encoding of self and another agent's goal in the primate prefrontal cortex: Human-monkey interactions

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 4613-4622

  Falcone, Rossella ^a   Brunamonti, Emiliano ^a   Ferraina, Stefano ^a   Genovesio, Aldo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decision; Frontal lobe; Monkeys; Prediction; Prefrontal cortex; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HAND; MALE; MEMORY; MICROELECTRODE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; GOALS; HAND; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85014951928     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhv224     Document Type: Article

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