Basic information processing and higher cognition: Does the mammalian cerebral cortex deal with them at different hierarchical levels?

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 23, Issue 10-11, 1996, Pages 908-912

  Vidyasagar, T R ^a  

^a Biology and Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional spotlight; Bicuculline; Long term depression; Long term potentiation; NMDA; Plasticity; Visual cortex; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MEMORY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029831528     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1996.tb01142.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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