Neural responses to velocity gradients in macaque cortical area MT

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 797-804

  Treue, Stefan ^a   Andersen, Richard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

MT; Optical flow; Structure from motion; Surfaces; Velocity gradients

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030197972     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095252380000866X     Document Type: Article

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