Neural computations governing spatiotemporal pooling of visual motion signals in humans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4917-4925

  Webb, Ben S ^a   Ledgeway, Timothy ^a   Rocchi, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MENTAL TASK; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79955710061     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6185-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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