Functional differentiation of macaque visual temporal cortical neurons using a parametric action space

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 593-611

  Vangeneugden, Joris ^a   Pollick, Frank ^b   Vogels, Rufin ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Inferotemporal cortex; Monkey; Movement; Single cell; Superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGRAM; KINEMATICS; MACACA; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 59749090007     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn109     Document Type: Article

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