From sensation to action

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 135, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 105-118

  Romo, Ranulfo ^a   Hernández, Adrián ^a   Salinas, Emilio ^a   Brody, Carlos D ^a   Zainos, Antonio ^a   Lemus, Luis ^a   Lafuente, Victor de ^a   Luna, Rogelio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Behaving monkeys; Frontal cortex; Microstimulation; Neural coding; Psychophysics; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

BRAIN REGION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRATION;

EID: 0037145106     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00161-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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