Analysing neuronal correlates of the comparison of two sequentially presented sensory stimuli

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1428, 2002, Pages 1843-1850

  Brody, Carlos D ^a   Hernández, Adrián ^b   Zainos, Antonio ^b   Lemus, Luis ^b   Romo, Ranulfo ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Decisions; Sequential discrimination; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 0037196102     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1167     Document Type: Conference Paper

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