Visual categorization and the parietal cortex

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY 2012, 2012, Pages 1-6

  Fitzgeraldn, Jamie K ^a,c   Swaminathan, Sruthi K ^b   Freedman, David J ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Electrophysiology; Frontal cortex; Learning; LIP; Neuroscience; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LATERAL INTRAPARIETAL CORTEX; LEARNING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84863624638     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00018     Document Type: Article

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