Single neuron activity in human hippocampus and amygdala during recognition of faces and objects

Neuron

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 753-765

  Fried, Itzhak ^a   MacDonald, Katherine A ^a   Wilson, Charles L ^b  

^a ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030917788     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80315-3     Document Type: Article

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