Responses of ventral posterior thalamus neurons to three-dimensional vestibular and optic flow stimulation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 817-826

  Meng, Hui ^a   Angelaki, Dora E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; EYE MOVEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; THALAMUS; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 76649083890     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00729.2009     Document Type: Article

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