How MT cells analyze the motion of visual patterns

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1421-1431

  Rust, Nicole C ^a,c   Mante, Valerio ^a,b,d   Simoncelli, Eero P ^a   Movshon, J Anthony ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; GRATING; MOTION; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33750463773     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1786     Document Type: Article

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