Microsaccadic eye movements and firing of single cells in the striate cortex of macaque monkeys

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 251-258

  Martinez Conde, Susana ^a   Macknik, Stephen L ^a   Hubel, David H ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; FIXATION, OCULAR; KINETICS; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; SACCADES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034089396     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/72961     Document Type: Article

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