The effect of middle temporal spike phase on sensory encoding and correlates with behavior during a motion-detection task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1343-1355

  Masse, Nicolas Y ^a   Cook, Erik P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavior; Macaque monkey; Motion; MT; Oscillations; Spike phase

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MIDDLE TEMPORAL AREA; MONKEY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MACACA MULATTA; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 38949157171     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2775-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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