How do cell assemblies encode information in the brain?

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 785-796

  Sakurai, Yoshio ^a,b,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behaving animals; Cell assembly; Correlation dynamics; Functional overlapping; Memory; Neuronal code

Indexed keywords

CELL COMMUNICATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032886384     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(99)00017-2     Document Type: Article

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