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Responses of single neurons in macaque MT/V5 as a function of motion coherence in stochastic dot stimuli
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| KENNETH H. BRITTEN1, MICHAEL N. SHADLEN1, WILLIAM T. NEWSOME1, J. ANTHONY MOVSHON2 |
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Fairchild Bldg., Room D-209
Stanford, CA 94305
2Center for Neural Science
New York University
4 Washington Place, Room 809
New York, NY 10003
Support: National Eye Institute, EY-5603, EY-2017;
McKnight Development Award to W.T.N;
NIH training grant NS 07158-11, K.H.B.
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| ANIMAL
| Macaca mulatta
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| PREP
| awake, fixation, discrimination
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| DATA TYPE
| extracellular spike times
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| CELL TYPE
| V5/MT cells
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| N
| 213 cells
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Stimulus
The stimulus was a sparse, dynamic random dot pattern lasting for
typically 2 seconds. A full description of the stimulus is provided
in Britten et al. (1992).
Electrophysiological Methods
Britten KH, Shadlen MN, Newsome WT, Movshon JA (1992) The
analysis of visual motion: a comparison of neuronal and psychophysical
performance. J Neurosci 12:4745-4765.
Published analyses
- Newsome WT, Britten KH, Movshon JA (1989) Neuronal correlates of
a perceptual decision. Nature 341:52-54.
- Britten KH, Shadlen MN, Newsome WT, Movshon JA (1992) The
analysis of visual motion: a comparison of neuronal and psychophysical
performance. J Neurosci 12:4745-4765.
- Britten KH, Shadlen MN, Newsome WT, Movshon JA (1993) Response of
neurons in macaque MT to stochastic motion signals. Visual
Neurosci 10:1157-1169.
- Bair W, Koch C, Newsome WT, Britten KH (1994) Power Spectrum
Analysis of Bursting Cells in Area MT in the Behaving Monkey. J
Neurosci 14:2870-2892.
- Bair W (1995) Analysis of Temporal Structure in Spike Trains
of Visual Cortical Area MT. Ph.D. Thesis, California Institute of
Technology.
- Britten KH, Newsome WT, Shadlen MN, Celebrini S, Movshon JA
(1996) A relationship between behavioral choice and the visual
responses of neurons in macaque MT. Visual Neurosci
13:87-100.
- Shadlen MN, Britten KH, Newsome WT, Movshon JA (1996) A
computational analysis of the relationship between neuronal and
behavioral responses to visual motion. J Neurosci
16:1486-1510.
- Bair W, Koch C (1996) Temporal precision of spike trains in
extrastriate cortex. Neural Comp 8:1185-1202.