The functional link between area MT neural fluctuations and detection of a brief motion stimulus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 38, 2011, Pages 13458-13468

  Smith, Jackson E T ^a   Zhan, Chang'an A ^b   Cook, Erik P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAPLORHINI; HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 80052995193     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1347-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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