MT Neurons Combine Visual Motion with a Smooth Eye Movement Signal to Code Depth-Sign from Motion Parallax

Neuron

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 523-532

  Nadler, Jacob W ^a   Nawrot, Mark ^b   Angelaki, Dora E ^a   DeAngelis, Gregory C ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 68949098186     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.07.029     Document Type: Article

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