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SUBMITTER: Zhang T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3084547 | biostudies-other | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Zhang Tao T Britten Kenneth H KH
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20110201 7
The ventral intraparietal area (VIP) of the macaque monkey brain is a multimodal area with visual, vestibular, somatosensory, and eye movement-related responses. The visual responses are strongly directional, and VIP neurons respond well to complex optic flow patterns similar to those found during self-motion. To test the hypothesis that visual responses in VIP directly contribute to the perception of self-motion direction, we used electrical microstimulation to perturb activity in VIP while ani ...[more]