Spatial summation in the receptive fields of MT neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 5074-5084

  Britten, Kenneth H ^a,b   Heuer, Hilary W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional selectivity; Divisive inhibition; Dorsal pathway; Hierarchy; Motion models; Normalization; Reverse correlation; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RHESUS MONKEY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033564052     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-12-05074.1999     Document Type: Article

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