Neural activity in cortical area V4 underlies fine disparity discrimination

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3830-3841

  Shiozaki, Hiroshi M ^a   Tanabe, Seiji ^a,b   Doi, Takahiro ^a,c   Fujita, Ichiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL AREA V4; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VISION DISPARITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84858030384     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5083-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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