The neuronal code for number

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 366-382

  Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; CODING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; TIME; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; NERVE NET; NEURONS;

EID: 84964999980     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn.2016.40     Document Type: Review

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