Direction discrimination thresholds of vestibular and cerebellar nuclei neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 439-448

  Liu, Sheng ^a   Yakusheva, Tatyana ^a   DeAngelis, Gregory C ^b   Angelaki, Dora E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AXIS; BEHAVIOR; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS; THEORY; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROC CURVE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 74949142553     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3192-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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