The legacy of Donald O. Hebb: More than the Hebb Synapse

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1013-1019

  Brown, Richard E ^a   Milner, Peter M ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMOTION; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0345258494     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1257     Document Type: Review

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