Perceptual modulation of motor-but not visual-responses in the frontal eye field during an urgent-decision task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 41, 2013, Pages 16394-16408

  Costello, M Gabriela ^a   Zhu, Dantong ^a   Salinas, Emilio ^a   Stanford, Terrence R ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MICROELECTRODE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPIKE WAVE; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; SACCADES; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84885125053     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1899-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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