How is a sensory map read out? Effects of microstimulation in visual area MT on saccades and smooth pursuit eye movements

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4312-4330

  Groh, Jennifer M ^a   Born, Richard T ^a,b   Newsome, William T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

area MT; area V5; middle temporal visual area; motion processing; pursuit initiation; saccades; saccadic target velocity compensation; vector averaging; vector summation; velocity; visual coding; winner take all, smooth pursuit

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; MALE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VELOCITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030966993     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-11-04312.1997     Document Type: Article

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