Neuronal representation of numerosity zero in the primate parieto-frontal number network

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1285-1294

  Ramirez Cardenas, Araceli ^a   Moskaleva, Maria ^a   Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; MALE; NERVE CELL; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84963973877     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.052     Document Type: Article

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