Middle temporal visual area microstimulation influences veridical judgments of motion direction

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 9530-9540

  Nichols, M James ^a   Newsome, William T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Area MT; Distributed code; Microstimulation; Monkey; Motion perception; Neural coding; Psychophysics; Vector averaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HYPOTHESIS; MONKEY; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0036849660     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-21-09530.2002     Document Type: Article

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