Activity in V4 reflects the direction, but not the latency, of saccades during visual search

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2187-2193

  Gee, Angela L ^a   Ipata, Anna E ^a   Goldberg, Michael E ^a,b  

^a Center for Neuroscience   (United States)

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HYPOTHESIS; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL INTRAPARIETAL AREA; MALE; MONKEY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRESTRIATE VISUAL AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77957825621     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00898.2009     Document Type: Article

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