Concomitant sensitivity to orientation, direction, and color of cells in layers 2, 3, and 4 of monkey striate cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 3 I, 1995, Pages 1808-1818

  Leventhal, Audie G ^a   Thompson, Kirk G ^a,c   Liu, Dan ^a   Zhou, Yifeng ^b   Ault, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blobs; color sensitivity; direction; monkey; orientation; visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; MONKEY; MOTION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0028957076     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.15-03-01808.1995     Document Type: Article

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