Visual-vestibular interactive responses in the macaque ventral intraparietal area (VIP)

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1569-1586

  Bremmer, Frank ^a,b   Klam, François ^a   Duhamel, Jean René ^a,c   Ben Hamed, Suliann ^a,c   Graf, Werner ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

Author keywords

Parietal; Perception; Primate; Self motion; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0036428719     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02206.x     Document Type: Article

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