The effect of disparity on the very earliest ocular following responses and the initial neuronal activity in monkey cortical area MST

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 93-102

  Takemura, Aya ^a,b   Inoue, Yuka ^c   Kawano, Kenji ^a,b  

^a ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Binocular disparity; Extrastriate visual cortex; Eye movement; Monkey; MST area; Ocular following response; Ocular tracking; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN CORTEX; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; EYE TRACKING; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0034282232     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(00)00149-8     Document Type: Article

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