Functional specializations of the ventral intraparietal area for multisensory heading discrimination

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3567-3581

  Chen, Aihua ^a   Deangelis, Gregory C ^b   Angelaki, Dora E ^c  

^a B326 Science Building   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEAD MOVEMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 84874210552     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4522-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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