Activity in the lateral intraparietal area predicts the goal and latency of saccades in a free-viewing visual search task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3656-3661

  Ipata, Anna E ^a   Gee, Angela L ^a   Goldberg, Michael E ^a,b   Bisley, James W ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Free viewing; Monkey; Oculomotor; Parietal cortex; Saccade; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND MOVEMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; GOALS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 33645563859     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5074-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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