Population vector analysis of primate prefrontal activity during spatial working memory

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1328-1339

  Takeda, Kazuyoshi ^a,b   Funahashi, Shintaro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Information processing; Oculomotor delayed response; Population vector; Prefrontal cortex; Rhesus monkey; Spatial working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CALCULATION; CELL POPULATION; COGNITION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION VECTOR ANALYSIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; ROTATION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 8644243913     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh093     Document Type: Article

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