Heteromodal connections supporting multisensory integration at low levels of cortical processing in the monkey

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2886-2902

  Cappe, Céline ^a   Barone, Pascal ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Feedback feedforward; New World monkey; Polysensory; Retrograde tracers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY SYSTEM; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CALLITHRIX; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEEDBACK; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE NET; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 29244466865     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04462.x     Document Type: Article

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