Intracortical connections are not required for oscillatory activity in the visual cortex

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 963-979

  Chose, Geoffrey M ^a,c   Freeman, Ralph D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coding; Discharge statistics; Geniculocortical integration; LGN; Oscillations; Synchrony; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENICULATE BODY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; OSCILLOMETRY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0031229450     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0952523800011676     Document Type: Article

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