The role of neuronal synchronization in response selection: A biologically plausible theory of structured representations in the visual cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 603-625

  Roelfsema, Pieter R ^a   Engel, Andreas K ^a   König, Peter ^a   Singer, Wolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAT; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; HUMAN; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030455511     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1996.8.6.603     Document Type: Article

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