Hierarchical somatosensory processing

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 522-528

  Iwamura, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; BRAIN CELL; CINGULATE GYRUS; HAND; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; SHOULDER; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; TRUNK; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0032143008     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(98)80041-X     Document Type: Article

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