Recent history of stimulus speeds affects the speed tuning of neurons in area MT

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 41, 2007, Pages 11009-11018

  Schlack, Anja ^a   Krekelberg, Bart ^b   Albright, Thomas D ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Adaptation; Area MT; Motion processing; Speed; Tuning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MACACA; MALE; MOTION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TUNING CURVE; VELOCITY; VISION;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 35348855765     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3165-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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