Visual inter-hemispheric processing: Constraints and potentialities set by axonal morphology

Journal of Physiology Paris

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 271-284

  Houzel, Jean Christophe ^a   Milleret, Chantal ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Axonal tree; Corpus callosam; Spike propagation; Temporal coding; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; GEOMETRY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032692828     PISSN: 09284257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-4257(00)80056-X     Document Type: Article

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