Effect of spatial attention on the responses of area MT neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1783-1794

  Seidemann, Eyal ^a,b   Newsome, William T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE POSITION; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RHESUS MONKEY; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033020559     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.81.4.1783     Document Type: Article

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