Receptive-field structure of optic flow responsive Purkinje cells in the vestibulocerebellum of pigeons

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-126

  Winship, Ian R ^a   Wylie, Douglas R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inferior olive; Optic flow; Optokinetic; Receptive fields; Vestibulocerebellum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; COMPUTER; INFERIOR OLIVE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INVERTEBRATE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC FLOW; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; ROTATION; VERTEBRATE; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; COLUMBIDAE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PURKINJE CELLS; ROTATION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33644850897     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523806231109     Document Type: Article

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