Behavioral choices: How neuronal networks make decisions

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Calabrese, Ronald L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037452657     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00076-9     Document Type: Short Survey

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