Neuronal synchrony does not correlate with motion coherence in cortical area MT

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6921, 2003, Pages 366-370

  Thiele, Alexander ^a   Stoner, Gene ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SYNCHRONIZATION; TRANSPARENCY;

NEURAL SYNCHRONY;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

VISUALIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE FIXATION; HYPOTHESIS; MONKEY; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0037461777     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01285     Document Type: Article

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