Responses of MSTd and MT neurons during smooth pursuit exhibit similar temporal frequency dependence on retinal image motion

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1708-1718

  Inaba, Naoko ^a   Kawano, Kenji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

area MSTd; area MT; monkey; smooth pursuit; visual motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EYE TRACKING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VELOCITY; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77955958136     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp235     Document Type: Article

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