The detection of visual signals by macaque frontal eye field during masking

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 283-288

  Thompson, Kirk G ^a   Schall, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; LATENT PERIOD; MACACA; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0033363320     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/6398     Document Type: Article

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