Decoding of path-guided apparent motion from neural ensembles in posterior parietal cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 532-540

  Merchant, Hugo ^a,b,c   Battaglia Mayer, Alexandra ^a,b   Georgopoulos, Apostolos P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Apparent motion; Area 7a; Decoding; Rhesus monkeys; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 15244356354     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2100-1     Document Type: Article

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