Cortical off response tuning for stimulus duration

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 3243-3251

  Duysens, J ^a   Schaafsma, S J ^a   Orban, G A ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cat areas 17 and 18; Duration tuning; OFF responses; Velocity tuning; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CAT; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030273148     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(96)00040-5     Document Type: Article

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