Microstimulation of V1 affects the detection of visual targets: Manipulation of target contrast

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 305-314

  Tehovnik, Edward J ^a   Slocum, Warren M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical microstimulation; Luminance contrast; Occipital cortex; Phosphenes; Rhesus monkeys; Visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PHOSPHENES; SACCADES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 23944473146     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2306-x     Document Type: Article

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