Nature and precision of temporal coding in visual cortex: A metric- space analysis

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 1310-1326

  Victor, Jonathan D ^a   Purpura, Keith P ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; HISTOGRAM; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPIKE; STATISTICS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029791918     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.76.2.1310     Document Type: Article

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