Perceptual and motor processing stages identified in the activity of macaque frontal eye field neurons during visual search

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 4040-4055

  Thompson, Kirk G ^a   Hanes, Doug P ^a   Bichot, Narcisse P ^a   Schall, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; LATENT PERIOD; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030463179     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.76.6.4040     Document Type: Article

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