Attentional modulation of MT neurons with single or multiple stimuli in their receptive fields

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3058-3066

  Lee, Joonyeol ^a   Maunsell, John H R ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGRAM; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77649131465     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3766-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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