Neural ensemble decoding reveals a correlate of viewer- to object-centered spatial transformation in monkey parietal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 5218-5228

  Crowe, David A ^a,c   Averbeck, Bruno B ^d   Chafee, Matthew V ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area 7a; Neural ensemble; Object based; Object centered; Parietal; Time resolved decoding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HISTOLOGY; MACACA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 45549086761     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5105-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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