Difficulty of visual search modulates neuronal interactions and response variability in the frontal eye field

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2580-2587

  Cohen, Jeremiah Y ^a   Pouget, Pierre ^b   Woodman, Geoffrey F ^b   Subraveti, Chenchal R ^b   Schall, Jeffrey D ^a,b   Rossi, Andrew F ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE MOVEMENT; MACACA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RESPONSE VARIABLE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE; FRONTAL LOBE; MACACA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36248977626     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00522.2007     Document Type: Article

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