Neurons selective to the number of visual items in the corvid songbird endbrain

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

Volumn 112, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 7827-7832

  Ditz, Helen M ^a   Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crow; Nidopallium caudolaterale; Quantity; Single cell recordings

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROW; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL; NIDOPALLIUM CAUDOLATERALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; TELENCEPHALON; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CORVUS; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

CORVIDA; CORVIDAE; PASSERI; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CROWS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS;

EID: 84934952026     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504245112     Document Type: Article

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