Neural correlates of prior expectations of motion in the lateral intraparietal and middle temporal areas

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 10063-10074

  Rao, Vinod ^a,b   DeAngelis, Gregory C ^a,c   Snyder, Lawrence H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; EXPECTATION; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84863943673     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5948-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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