Aging affects the direction selectivity of MT cells in rhesus monkeys

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 863-873

  Liang, Zhen ^a   Yang, Yun ^a   Li, Guangxing ^a   Zhang, Jie ^d   Wang, Yongchang ^a,b   Zhou, Yifeng ^a,c   Leventhal, Audie G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^d KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Area MT; Degradation; Direction selectivity; Monkey; Pattern cell

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL AREA; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; STRIATE CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77950528860     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2008.06.013     Document Type: Article

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