Preferential encoding of visual categories in parietal cortex compared with prefrontal cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 315-320

  Swaminathan, Sruthi K ^a   Freedman, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HAPLORHINI; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ROC CURVE; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84856265548     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3016     Document Type: Article

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