Power spectrum analysis of bursting cells in area MT in the behaving monkey

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 5 I, 1994, Pages 2870-2892

  Bair, Wyeth ^a   Koch, Christof ^a   Newsome, William ^b   Britten, Kenneth ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

behaving monkey; bursting; extrastriate cortex (MT); interspike interval analysis; oscillations; power spectrum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MONKEY; MOTION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0028324928     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.14-05-02870.1994     Document Type: Article

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