Snakes elicit earlier, and monkey faces, later, gamma oscillations in macaque pulvinar neurons

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Le, Quan Van ^a,d   Isbell, Lynne A ^b   Matsumoto, Jumpei ^a   Le, Van Quang ^a   Nishimaru, Hiroshi ^a   Hori, Etsuro ^a   Maior, Rafael S ^c,e   Tomaz, Carlos ^c,f   Ono, Taketoshi ^a   Nishijo, Hisao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^d VIETNAM MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^e KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f CEUMA UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; HAPLORHINI; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PULVINAR; SNAKE; STIMULUS; ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84957587120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20595     Document Type: Article

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