Coding of horizontal disparity and velocity by MT neurons in the alert macaque

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1094-1111

  DeAngelis, Gregory C ^a   Uka, Takanori ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL FUNCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MACACA; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0037321258     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00717.2002     Document Type: Article

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