Orientation and direction-of-motion response in the middle temporal visual area (MT) of new world owl monkeys as revealed by intrinsic-signal optical imaging

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn , Issue JULY, 2010, Pages

  Kaskan, Peter M ^a,c   Dillenburger, Barbara C ^a   Lu, Haidong D ^b   Roe, Anna W ^a   Kaas, Jon H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical modules; Direction of motion columns; Orientation columns; Primates; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AOTUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GRATING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; INTRINSIC SIGNAL OPTICAL IMAGING; MIDDLE TEMPORAL VISUAL AREA; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 78649956299     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2010.00023     Document Type: Article

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