Temporal Precision of Spike Trains in Extrastriate Cortex of the Behaving Macaque Monkey

Neural Computation

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1185-1202

  Bair, Wyeth ^a,b   Koch, Christof ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; MACACA; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MACACA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030586597     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.1996.8.6.1185     Document Type: Article

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