Area MSTd neurons encode visual stimuli in eye coordinates during fixation and pursuit

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-68

  Lee, Brian ^a   Pesaran, Bijan ^a   Andersen, Richard A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; EYE TRACKING; GAZE; MACACA MULATTA; MEDIAL SUPERIOR TEMPORAL AREA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 78651449260     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00495.2009     Document Type: Article

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