Distributed population coding of multisensory spatial information in the associative cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 525-529

  Benedek, György ^a   Eördegh, Gabriella ^a   Chadaide, Zoltán ^a   Nagy, Attila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Auditory; Cat; Cerebral cortex; Panoramic localizers; Visual

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE;

ACCURACY; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CAT; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMMOBILIZATION; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECORDING; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3242769014     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03496.x     Document Type: Article

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