Dynamics of orientation tuning in macaque primary visual cortex

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6630, 1997, Pages 281-284

  Ringach, Dario L ^a   Hawken, Michael J ^a   Shapley, Robert ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; NEURONS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALIA; MACACA;

EID: 0030904203     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/387281a0     Document Type: Article

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