Monkey area MT latencies to speed changes depend on attention and correlate with behavioral reaction times

Neuron

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 740-750

  Galashan, F Orlando ^a   Saßen, HannaC ^a   Kreiter, AndreasK ^a   Wegener, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; MACACA MULATTA; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84878433812     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.03.014     Document Type: Article

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