Multisensory versus unisensory integration: Contrasting modes in the superior colliculus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 3193-3205

  Alvarado, Juan Carlos ^a   Vaughan, J William ^a   Stanford, Terrence R ^a   Stein, Barry E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MODEL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SENSORY NERVE CELL; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34447304388     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00018.2007     Document Type: Article

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