Explicit Encoding of Multimodal Percepts by Single Neurons in the Human Brain

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1308-1313

  Quian Quiroga, Rodrigo ^a,b,c   Kraskov, Alexander ^b,d   Koch, Christof ^b   Fried, Itzhak ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; HEARING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 68149179646     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.06.060     Document Type: Article

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