Temporal precision of the encoding of motion information by visual interneurons

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 359-368

  Warzecha, Anne Kathrin ^a   Kretzberg, Jutta ^a   Egelhaaf, Martin ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0032568222     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(98)70154-X     Document Type: Article

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