Responses of neurons in the medial superior temporal visual area to apparent motion stimuli in macaque monkeys

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 272-282

  Churchland, Anne K ^a,b   Huang, Xin ^a   Lisberger, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MONKEY; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33846427411     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00941.2005     Document Type: Article

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