Spatial summation in macaque parietal area 7a follows a winner-take-all rule

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1150-1158

  Oleksiak, Anna ^a,b   Klink, P Christiaan ^a,b   Postma, Albert ^c   van der Ham, Ineke J M ^c   Lankheet, Martin J ^d   van Wezel, Richard J A ^a,b,e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Functional Neurobiology ^*  (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Parietal cortex; Receptive field; Vision

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERAGING; CELL POPULATION; COMPETITION; FACILITATION; MACACA; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL SUMMATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 79955136691     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00907.2010     Document Type: Article

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