Motion integration in a thalamic visual nucleus

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6708, 1998, Pages 265-268

  Merabet, Lotfi ^a   Desautels, Alex ^a   Minville, Karine ^a   Casanova, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032548069     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/24382     Document Type: Article

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