Decision-related activity in the macaque dorsal visual pathway

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2044-2058

  Thiele, Alexander ^a,b   Distler, Claudia ^a   Hoffmann, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Direction discrimination; MST; MT; Stimulus expectation; STPp; V3A

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; LUMINANCE; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0033045470     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00630.x     Document Type: Article

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