Contrast induced changes in response latency depend on stimulus specificity

Journal of Physiology Paris

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 167-175

  Oram, Mike W ^a,b  

^a Institute of Adaptive and Neural Computation   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Response latency; Stimulus contrast; Temporal cortex; Visual responses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MONKEY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; RESPONSE LATENCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 77952552587     PISSN: 09284257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2009.11.021     Document Type: Article

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