Multisensory integration in the basal ganglia

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 917-924

  Nagy, Attila ^a   Eördegh, Gabriella ^a   Paróczy, Zsuzsanna ^a   Márkus, Zita ^a   Benedek, György ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Auditory; Cat; Caudate nucleus; Somatosensory; Substantia nigra; Visual

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASAL GANGLION; CAT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BASAL GANGLIA; CATS; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SENSATION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747154693     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04942.x     Document Type: Article

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