Responses of MST neurons to plaid stimuli

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-74

  Khawaja, Farhan A ^a   Liu, Liu D ^a   Pack, Christopher C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortex; Electrophysiology; Motion integration; Perception; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; MEDIAL SUPERIOR TEMPORAL; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; VELOCITY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MOTION INTEGRATION; PERCEPTION; VISION;

ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84879613376     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00338.2012     Document Type: Article

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