Dissociation of visual discrimination from saccade programming in macaque frontal eye field

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 1046-1050

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

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MONKEY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0031027266     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.77.2.1046     Document Type: Article

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