Direction and contrast tuning of macaque MSTd neurons during saccades

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3100-3107

  Crowder, Nathan A ^a,c   Price, Nicholas S C ^d   Mustari, Michael J ^b   Ibbotson, Michael R ^a,b,e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 66349104017     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.91254.2008     Document Type: Article

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