Eye position compensation improves estimates of response magnitude and receptive field geometry in alert monkeys

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 3439-3448

  Tang, Yamei ^a,b   Saul, Alan ^a   Gur, Moshe ^c   Goei, Stephanie ^a   Wong, Elsie ^a   Ersoy, Bilgin ^d   Snodderly, D Max ^a,e  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RHESUS MONKEY; SCLERA; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; MACACA; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM; WAKEFULNESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 34447344118     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00881.2006     Document Type: Article

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