Attentional modulation of motion integration of individual neurons in the middle temporal visual area

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 36, 2004, Pages 7964-7977

  Cook, Erik P ^a,b   Maunsell, John H R ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Macaque monkey; Motion; MT; Reverse correlation; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KERNEL; MACACA; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE TEMPORAL VISUAL AREA; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; MULTIPLICATIVE SCALING; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIMAL LINEAR FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE CORRELATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION WINDOW; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 4544287792     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5102-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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