On variability in the density of corticocortical and thalamocortical connections

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1393, 2000, Pages 21-35

  Scannell, Jack W ^a   Grant, Simon ^b   Payne, Bertram R ^c   Baddeley, Roland ^d  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterograde; Cats; Cerebral cortex; Neuroinformatics; Retrograde; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARMORACIA RUSTICANA; FELIS CATUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0034728144     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0547     Document Type: Article

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