Attention reshapes center-surround receptive field structure in macaque cortical area MT

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2466-2478

  Anton Erxleben, Katharina ^a   Stephan, Valeska M ^a   Treue, Stefan ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motion processing; Physiology; Spatial summation; Tuning; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; EYE FIXATION; EYE POSITION; MACACA; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 69449107227     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp002     Document Type: Article

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