Monkey pulvinar neurons fire differentially to snake postures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Van Le, Quan ^a   Isbell, Lynne A ^b   Matsumoto, Jumpei ^a   Le, Van Quang ^a   Hori, Etsuro ^a   Tran, Anh Hai ^a   Maior, Rafael S ^c   Tomaz, Carlos ^c   Ono, Taketoshi ^a   Nishijo, Hisao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY POSTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; LATENT PERIOD; LIFE THREAT; MACACA FUSCATA; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PULVINAR; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SNAKE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; MACACA; NERVE CELL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA; PRIMATES; SERPENTES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MACACA; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTURE; PULVINAR; REACTION TIME; SNAKES;

EID: 84917706513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114258     Document Type: Article

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