Visuotopic organisation and neuronal response selectivity for direction of motion in visual areas of the caudal temporal lobe of the marmoset monkey (Callithrix jacchus): Middle temporal area, middle temporal crescent, and surrounding cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 393, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 505-527

  Rosa, Marcello G P ^a   Elston, Guy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extrastriate; Primate; Receptive fields; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SELECTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CALLITHRIX; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032550296     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980420)393:4<505::AID-CNE9>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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