A distributed cortical representation underlies crossmodal object recognition in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 6253-6261

  Winters, Boyer D ^a   Reid, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; SENSORY SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; TOUCH;

EID: 77951803633     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6073-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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