The distribution of neuronal population activation (DPA) as a tool to study interaction and integration in cortical representations

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-66

  Erlhagen, Wolfram ^a,b   Bastian, Annette ^a   Jancke, Dirk ^b   Riehle, Alexa ^a   Schöner, Gregor ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cat visual cortex; Cortical interaction; Monkey motor cortex; Neural field theory; Neural population representation; Optimal linear estimator

Indexed keywords

CAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032716406     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(99)00125-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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