Single-unit activity in cortical area MST associated with disparity-vergence eye movements: Evidence for population coding

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 2245-2266

  Takemura, A ^a   Inoue, Y ^a   Kawano, K ^a   Quaia, C ^b,c   Miles, F A ^b  

^a ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0035004582     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2001.85.5.2245     Document Type: Article

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