The representation of brightness in primary visual cortex

Science

Volumn 273, Issue 5278, 1996, Pages 1104-1107

  Rossi, Andrew F ^a   Rittenhouse, Cynthia D ^a   Paradiso, Michael A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CAT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0029822591     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5278.1104     Document Type: Article

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