Consciousness without a cerebral cortex: A challenge for neuroscience and medicine

B Merker - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2007 - cambridge.org
A broad range of evidence regarding the functional organization of the vertebrate brain–
spanning from comparative neurology to experimental psychology and neurophysiology to …

The ventral lateral geniculate nucleus and the intergeniculate leaflet: interrelated structures in the visual and circadian systems

ME Harrington - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 1997 - Elsevier
HARRINGTON, ME The ventral lateral geniculate nucleus and the intergeniculate leaflet:
interrelated structures in the visual and circadian systems. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REV 21 …

[图书][B] Handbook of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience

IB Weiner, RJ Nelson, S Mizumori - 2012 - books.google.com
Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of
academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in …

[HTML][HTML] Saccade target selection during visual search

JM Findlay - Vision research, 1997 - Elsevier
Five experiments are reported in which eye movements were recorded while subjects
carried out a visual search task. The aim was to investigate whether an accurate initial target …

The liabilities of mobility: A selection pressure for the transition to consciousness in animal evolution

B Merker - Consciousness and cognition, 2005 - Elsevier
The issue of the biological origin of consciousness is linked to that of its function. One source
of evidence in this regard is the contrast between the types of information that are and are …

Saccadic reaction time in the monkey: advanced preparation of oculomotor programs is primarily responsible for express saccade occurrence

M Paré, DP Munoz - Journal of Neurophysiology, 1996 - journals.physiology.org
1. The introduction of a period of darkness between the disappearance of an initial fixation
target and the appearance of a peripheral saccade target produces a general reduction in …

Estimates of the contribution of single neurons to perception depend on timescale and noise correlation

MR Cohen, WT Newsome - Journal of Neuroscience, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
The sensitivity of a population of neurons, and therefore the amount of sensory information
available to an animal, is limited by the sensitivity of single neurons in the population and by …

How is a sensory map read out? Effects of microstimulation in visual area MT on saccades and smooth pursuit eye movements

JM Groh, RT Born, WT Newsome - Journal of Neuroscience, 1997 - Soc Neuroscience
To generate behavioral responses based on sensory input, motor areas of the brain must
interpret, or “read out,” signals from sensory maps. Our experiments tested several …

On building a bridge between brain and behavior

JD Schall - Annu. Rev. Psychol., 2004 - annualreviews.org
Cognitive neuroscience is motivated by the precept that a discoverable correspondence
exists between mental states and brain states. This precept seems to be supported by …

Correlation between speed perception and neural activity in the middle temporal visual area

J Liu, WT Newsome - Journal of Neuroscience, 2005 - Soc Neuroscience
We conducted electrophysiological recording and microstimulation experiments to test the
hypothesis that the middle temporal visual area (MT) plays a direct role in perception of the …