Encoding asymmetry within neural circuits

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 832-843

  Concha, Miguel L ^a   Bianco, Isaac H ^b   Wilson, Stephen W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CHEMOTAXIS; EPITHALAMUS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872005802     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3371     Document Type: Review

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