Responses of MT and MST neurons to one and two moving objects in the receptive field

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2904-2915

  Recanzone, G H ^a   Wurtz, R H ^b,d   Schwarz, U ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 0031431019     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.78.6.2904     Document Type: Article

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