Dendritic computation of direction selectivity and gain control in visual interneurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 6023-6030

  Single, Sandra ^a   Haag, Juergen ^a   Borst, Alexander ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER LABORATORY OF THE MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compartmental model; Direction selectivity; Fly; Gain control; Membrane parameters; Motion detection; Neural computation; Synaptic conductance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; FEMALE; FLY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNEURON; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0030797137     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-16-06023.1997     Document Type: Article

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