Integration of retinal disparity and fixation-distance related signals toward an egocentric coding of distance in the posterior parietal cortex of primates

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2670-2684

  Genovesio, Aldo ^a   Ferraina, Stefano ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE FIXATION DISTANCE; EYE MOVEMENT; FIXATION FAILURE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION DISPARITY;

EID: 2442535763     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00712.2003     Document Type: Article

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