Direction and speed tuning to visual motion in cortical areas MT and MSTd during smooth pursuit eye movements

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1531-1545

  Inaba, Naoko ^a   Miura, Kenichiro ^a   Kawano, Kenji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Background; Compensation; Directional selectivity; Monkey

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; DORSAL MEDIAL SUPERIOR TEMPORAL; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; HAPLORHINI; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; RETINA; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955145300     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00511.2010     Document Type: Article

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