Representation of Angles Embedded within Contour Stimuli in Area V2 of Macaque Monkeys

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 3313-3324

  Ito, Minami ^a   Komatsu, Hidehiko ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angle; Area V2; Contour; Corner; Primate; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE POSITION; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 1842506510     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4364-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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