A computational analysis of the relationship between neuronal and behavioral responses to visual motion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1486-1510

  Shadlen, Michael N ^a,c   Britten, Kenneth H ^a,d   Newsome, William T ^a   Movshon, J Anthony ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

area MT; motion perception; neural modeling; sensory coding; signal detection; visual psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029928664     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-04-01486.1996     Document Type: Article

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