Neural mechanisms of visual feature binding investigated with microelectrodes and models

Visual Cognition

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 231-265

  Eckhorn, Reinhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 0001222403     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135062899394975     Document Type: Article

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