Velocity computation in the primate visual system

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 686-695

  Bradley, David C ^a   Goyal, Manu S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VELOCITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; PRIMATES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

PRIMATES;

EID: 49949104416     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2472     Document Type: Review

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