Dynamics of neuronal responses in macaque MT and VIP during motion detection

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 985-994

  Cook, Erik P ^a   Maunsell, John H R ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MACACA; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0036785833     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn924     Document Type: Article

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