Comparative population analysis of cortical representations in parametric spaces of visual field and skin: A unifying role for nonlinear interactions as a basis for active information processing across modalities

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 130, Issue , 2001, Pages 155-173

  Dinse, Hubert R ^a   Jancke, Dirk ^a,b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; CELL POPULATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOKED RESPONSE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0035784008     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(01)30011-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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