Brief motion stimuli preferentially activate surround-suppressed neurons in macaque visual area MT

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Churan, Jan ^a   Khawaja, Farhan A ^a   Tsui, James M G ^a   Pack, Christopher C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; LETTER; MACACA; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

MACACA;

EID: 56349085106     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.003     Document Type: Letter

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