Dynamics of ongoing activity: Explanation of the large variability in evoked cortical responses

Science

Volumn 273, Issue 5283, 1996, Pages 1868-1871

  Arieli, Amos ^a   Sterkin, Alexander ^a   Grinvald, Amiram ^a   Aertsen, Ad ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029767876     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5283.1868     Document Type: Article

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