Time Course of Information about Motion Direction in Visual Area MT of Macaque Monkeys

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 3210-3222

  Osborne, Leslie C ^a   Bialek, William ^b   Lisberger, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrastriate cortex; Eye movement; Information theory; Smooth pursuit; Temporal processing; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MACACA; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; STRIATE CORTEX; TIME; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; MACACA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 1842506564     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5305-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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