Charting the lower superior temporal region, a new motion-sensitive region in monkey superior temporal sulcus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5929-5947

  Nelissen, Koen ^a   Vanduffel, Wim ^a,b   Orban, Guy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; Cerebral cortex; Cortical area; Functional imaging; Primates; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; MACACA; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33745287857     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0824-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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