Causal links between dorsal medial superior temporal area neurons and multisensory heading perception

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2299-2313

  Gu, Yong ^a,b   deAngelis, Gregory C ^c   Angelaki, Dora E ^a,d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEAD POSITION; MEDIAL SUPERIOR TEMPORAL AREA; NONHUMAN; OPTIC FLOW; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 84857066636     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5154-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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