An intracellular study of the contrast-dependence of neuronal activity in cat visual cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 559-570

  Ahmed, Bashir ^a   Allison, John D ^a   Douglas, Rodney J ^a   Martin, Kevan A C ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTRAST; FEMALE; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030878127     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/7.6.559     Document Type: Article

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