Anatomical connectivity defines the organization of clusters of cortical areas in the macaque monkey and the cat

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1393, 2000, Pages 91-110

  Hilgetag, Claus C ^a,c   Burns, Gully A P C ^b   O'Neill, Marc A ^a   Scannell, Jack W ^a   Young, Malcolm P ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical connectivity; Corticocortical connections; Cost functions; Evolutionary optimization; Multidimensional scaling; Non parametric cluster analyses

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS; MACACA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034728146     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0551     Document Type: Article

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