Synchronization of neuronal activity during stimulus expectation in a direction discrimination task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 9248-9260

  De Oliveira, Simone Cardoso ^a   Thiele, Alexander ^a   Hoffmann, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Cross correlation; Expectation; Extrastriate cortex; Macaque monkey; Motion detection; MST; MT; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030703660     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-23-09248.1997     Document Type: Article

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