Differential impact of behavioral relevance on quantity coding in primate frontal and parietal neurons

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1259-1269

  Viswanathan, Pooja ^a   Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COLOR; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLOR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84929606017     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.03.025     Document Type: Article

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