Time and number: The privileged status of small values in the brain

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Buhusi, Catalin V ^a   Cordes, Sara ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 82255179895     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00067     Document Type: Article

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