Vestibular signals in macaque extrastriate visual cortex are functionally appropriate for heading perception

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 28, 2009, Pages 8936-8945

  Liu, Sheng ^a   Angelaki, Dora E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; DYNAMICS; GRAVITY; HEAD MOVEMENT; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; ORIENTATION; PALATE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VELOCITY; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; GRAVITATION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION PERCEPTION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 67650745133     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1607-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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