Psychophysical evidence for spatiotopic processing in area MT in a short-term memory for motion task

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2435-2440

  Ong, Wei Song ^a,c   Hooshvar, Nina ^a   Mingsha, Zhang ^d   Bisley, James W ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 70350291668     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00684.2009     Document Type: Article

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