MST neurons code for visual motion in space independent of pursuit eye movements

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 3473-3483

  Inaba, Naoko ^a,b,c   Shinomoto, Shigeru ^a   Yamane, Shigeru ^b,d   Takemura, Aya ^b   Kawano, Kenji ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d MAEBASHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE MOVEMENT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA IMAGE; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; CYTOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MACACA; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; MACACA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34447335628     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01054.2006     Document Type: Article

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