Cortical neuronal responses to optic flow are shaped by visual strategies for steering

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 727-739

  Page, William K ^a   Duffy, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Extrastriate; Motion; Navigation; Optic flow; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; MEDIAL SUPERIOR TEMPORAL NERVE CELL; MONKEY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEERING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 40849142143     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm109     Document Type: Article

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