Integration of Contour and Terminator Signals in Visual Area MT of Alert Macaque

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 3268-3280

  Pack, Christopher C ^a   Gartland, Andrew J ^a   Born, Richard T ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Illusion; MT; Striate cortex; Vision; Visual

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; GEOMETRY; ILLUSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VELOCITY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 1842610935     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4387-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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