Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 8 , Pages 1120-1128 , October 2010

Frontoparietal activity with minimal decision and control in the awake macaque at 7 T

  • Steffen Stoewer

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstr. 38, 72026 Tuebingen, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Shih-Pi Ku

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstr. 38, 72026 Tuebingen, Germany
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  • Jozien Goense

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstr. 38, 72026 Tuebingen, Germany
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  • Thomas Steudel

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstr. 38, 72026 Tuebingen, Germany
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  • Nikos K. Logothetis

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstr. 38, 72026 Tuebingen, Germany
    • Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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  • John Duncan

      Affiliations

    • MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, CB2 7EF Cambridge, UK
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  • Natasha Sigala

      Affiliations

    • Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX1 3UD Oxford, UK
    • MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, CB2 7EF Cambridge, UK

Received 7 October 2009 ,Accepted 21 December 2009.

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☆ This work was supported by James McDonnell Foundation project grant no: 220020081 (JD, NKL, NS), the Max Planck Society, the UK Medical Research Council intramural program U.1055.01.001.00001.01 (JD) and the UK Royal Society (DH051644) (NS).

PII: S0730-725X(09)00316-6

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.12.024

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 8 , Pages 1120-1128 , October 2010

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