Spatiotemporal structure of cortical activity: Properties and behavioral relevance

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2857-2874

  Prut, Yifat ^a,b   Vaadia, Eilon ^a   Bergman, Hagai ^a   Haalman, Iris ^a   Slovin, Hamutal ^a   Abeles, Moshe ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; MONKEY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031820640     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.79.6.2857     Document Type: Article

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