Parallel and serial neural mechanisms for visual search in macaque area V4

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5721, 2005, Pages 529-534

  Bichot, Narcisse P ^a   Rossi, Andrew F ^a,b   Desimone, Robert ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; BIODIVERSITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; TRACKING (POSITION); VISUALIZATION;

NEURAL MECHANISM; PARALLEL MECHANISMS; TARGET OBJECTS; VISUAL SYSTEMS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

NEUROLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 17644384852     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1109676     Document Type: Article

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