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Motion perception: read my LIP

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Neural activity in the enigmatic lateral intraparietal area (LIP) of the monkey brain is now reported to reflect the perceived direction of ambiguous motion more faithfully than does activity in other areas apparently specialized for motion analysis.

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Figure 1: Stimuli and direction-selective neural responses for the two main conditions used by Assad and colleagues2.

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