Visual selection: Neurons that make up their minds
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Visual selection: Neurons that make up their minds
Fresh evidence about how cells in frontal cortex make decisions has come from experiments in which information is partly withheld from them.
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(99)80382-0