Macaque middle temporal neurons signal depth in the absence of motion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 7647-7658

  Palanca, Ben J A ^a   DeAngelis, Gregory C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular disparity; Extrastriate; Motion; Saccade; Stereopsis; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACACA; MALE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STEREORADIOGRAPHY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0041920923     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-20-07647.2003     Document Type: Article

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