Mechanisms underlying orientation selectivity of neurons in the primary visual cortex of the macaque

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 494, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 757-771

  Sato, Hiromichi ^a,b   Katsuyama, Narumi ^a   Tamura, Hiroshi ^a,c   Hata, Yoshio ^a   Tsumoto, Tadaharu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE METHIODIDE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029737750     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021530     Document Type: Article

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