Complex motion sensitivity of neurons, in the visual part of the anterior ectosylvian cortex in cats

Neuroscience

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 106-118

  Zabouri, N ^a   Ptito, M ^a   Casanova, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

direction selectivity; extrastriate cortex; optic flow; plaids; random dot kinematogram; receptive field

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR ECTOSYLVIAN CORTEX; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 39649123271     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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