Cortical area MT and the perception of stereoscopic depth

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6694, 1998, Pages 677-680

  DeAngelis, Gregory C ^a   Cumming, Bruce G ^b   Newsome, William T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES; STEREOPSIS;

EID: 0032514542     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29299     Document Type: Article

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