Neuronal correlates of a visual "sense of number" in primate parietal and prefrontal cortices

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

Volumn 110, Issue 27, 2013, Pages 11187-11192

  Viswanathan, Pooja ^a   Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Association cortices; Quantity; Single unit recording

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HAPLORHINI; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ASSOCIATION CORTICES; QUANTITY; SINGLE-UNIT RECORDING;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84879717734     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308141110     Document Type: Article

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