Contribution of middle temporal area to coarse depth discrimination: Comparison of neuronal and psychophysical sensitivity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3515-3530

  Uka, Takanori ^a   DeAngelis, Gregory C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular disparity; Depth discrimination; Extrastriate; Neuronal sensitivity; Stereopsis; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL LOBE; MONKEY; MOTION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0037995729     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-08-03515.2003     Document Type: Article

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