Cone signal interactions in direction-selective neurons in the middle temporal visual area (MT)

Journal of Vision

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 603-621

  Barberini, Crista L ^a,b   Cohen, Marlene R ^a   Wandell, Brian A ^a   Newsome, William T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; Cones; Macaque; Motion; MT; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIRECTIONAL VISION; FEMALE; GRATING; LUMINANCE; MONKEY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA CONE; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; LIGHT; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27244456167     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/5.7.1     Document Type: Article

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