Supramodal numerosity selectivity of neurons in primate prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 11860-11865

  Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Association cortex; Multimodal; Number; Single cell recordings

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84863941582     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204580109     Document Type: Article

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