Representations of visual proportions in the primate posterior parietal and prefrontal cortices

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1380-1387

  Vallentin, Daniela ^a   Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inferior parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Ratio; Rhesus monkey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77958514235     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07427.x     Document Type: Article

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