Effects of stimulus direction on the correlation between behavior and single units in area MT during a motion detection task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 8230-8238

  Bosking, William H ^a   Maunsell, John H R ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MACACA; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79958042876     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0126-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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