Neural Activity in Primate Parietal Area 7a Related to Spatial Analysis of Visual Mazes

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-34

  Crowe, David A ^a,b   Chafee, Matthew V ^a,c   Averbeck, Bruno B ^a,b   Georgopoulos, Apostolos P ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Area 7a; Directional tuning; Monkey; Parietal cortex; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE POSITION; MAZE TEST; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0345731428     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhg088     Document Type: Article

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