Sharp emergence of feature-selective sustained activity along the dorsal visual pathway

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1255-1262

  Mendoza Halliday, Diego ^a   Torres, Santiago ^a   Martinez Trujillo, Julio C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FIRING RATE; LATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MACACA; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SPIKE WAVE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RHESUS MONKEY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTION PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84921664985     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3785     Document Type: Article

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