Anisotropy in the representation of direction preferences in cat area 18

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2773-2780

  Ribot, Jérôme ^a,b   Tanaka, Shigeru ^a   O'Hashi, Kazunori ^a   Ajima, Ayako ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Area 18; Direction selectivity; Optic flow; Optical imaging; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEMISPHERE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FIXATION, OCULAR; LOCOMOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OPTICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETINA; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 44649191175     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06219.x     Document Type: Article

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