Representation of perceptually invisible image motion in extrastriate visual area MT of macaque monkeys

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 46, 2011, Pages 16561-16569

  Hohl, Sonja S ^a   Lisberger, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SIGNAL DETECTION; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; IMAGINATION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 81255211971     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3166-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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