Coding of cognitive magnitude: Compressed scaling of numerical information in the primate prefrontal cortex

Neuron

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 149-157

  Nieder, Andreas ^a   Miller, Earl K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037426978     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(02)01144-3     Document Type: Article

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