Aging affects the neural representation of speed in macaque area MT

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1957-1967

  Yang, Yun ^a   Zhang, Jie ^b   Liang, Zhen ^a   Li, Guangxing ^a   Wang, Yongchang ^a,c   Ma, Yuanye ^b   Zhou, Yifeng ^a,d   Leventhal, Audie G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Area MT; Degradation; Inhibition; Macaque; Speed

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VELOCITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGING; ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 68749088571     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn221     Document Type: Article

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