Neurons in monkey visual cortex detect lines defined by coherent motion of dots

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1091-1100

  Peterhans, E ^a,c   Heider, B ^b   Baumann, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alert macaque; Figure ground segregation; Orientation selectivity; Prestriate cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MONKEY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PARAMETER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA MULATTA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 16244398043     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.03919.x     Document Type: Article

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