Change in choice-related response modulation in area MT during learning of a depth-discrimination task is consistent with task learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 13689-13700

  Uka, Takanori ^a   Sasaki, Ryo ^a,b   Kumano, Hironori ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; LIFELONG LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA; MALE; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84866987470     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4406-10.2012     Document Type: Article

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