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Vestibular cortical area in the periarcuate cortex: its afferent and efferent projections

Yuriko Sugiuchi1, Yoshiko Izawa, Shigeto Ebata

  • 1Department of Systems Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, 113-8519.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|April 14, 2005
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