Temporal cortex neurons encode articulated actions as slow sequences of integrated poses

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3133-3145

  Singer, Jedediah M ^a   Sheinberg, David L ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77649137652     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3211-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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