Gaze direction controls response gain in primary visual-cortex neurons

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6724, 1999, Pages 239-242

  Trotter, Yves ^a   Celebrini, Simona ^a  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; GAZE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; RETINA; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033580480     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18444     Document Type: Article

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