Optic flow selectivity in the anterior superior temporal polysensory area, STPa, of the behaving monkey

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2681-2692

  Anderson, Kathleen C ^a,b   Siegel, Ralph M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Monkeys; Optic flow; Self motion; Single unit recording; Temporal cortex; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; EYE FIXATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RHESUS MONKEY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033119930     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-07-02681.1999     Document Type: Article

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