title: Which object appeared longer?
abstract: In this issue of Neuron, Genovesio et al. report that neurons in the frontal cortex encode the relative duration of appearance of two sensory signals, together with the features of each signal. Such representations could provide a neural basis for episodic memory.
authors.affiliation: Brain Science Research Institute, Tamagawa University, Tokyo 194-8610, Japan. tanji@lab.tamagawa.ac.jp
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tanji
authors.forename: Hajime
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mushiake
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D000882:Haplorhini; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors