Neural activity in the frontal eye fields modulated by the number of alternatives in target choice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2242-2251

  Lee, Kyoung Min ^a,b   Keller, Edward L ^a  

^a SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Decision; Frontal eye fields; Macaque; Response selection; Saccade; Single unit activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EYE; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 39849110782     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3596-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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