What Is Reflected in Sensory Neocortical Activity: External Stimuli or What the Cortex Does with Them?

23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Scheich, Henning ^a   Ohl, Frank W ^a   Schulze, Holger ^a   Hess, Andreas ^a   Brechmann, André ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active; Auditory cortex; Passive; Sensory cortex; Spatiotemporal activation patterns; Stimulus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752207     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195148220.003.0017     Document Type: Chapter

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