Been there, seen that: A neural mechanism for performing efficient visual search

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3481-3491

  Mirpour, Koorosh ^a   Arcizet, Fabrice ^a   Ong, Wei Song ^a,c   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)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EXPECTANCY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FORAGING; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; RHESUS MONKEY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISION; VISUAL SEARCH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72749125811     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00688.2009     Document Type: Article

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