Sense and the single neuron: Probing the physiology of perception

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue , 1998, Pages 227-277

  Parker, A J ^a   Newsome, W T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Audition; Cerebral cortex; Neuronal pooling; Somatosensory; Vision

Indexed keywords

NERVE CELL; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; HUMANS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031922118     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.21.1.227     Document Type: Review

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