A possible basic cortical microcircuit called 'cascaded inhibition'. Results from cortical network models and recording experiments from striate simple cells

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 318-332

  Wörgötter, Florentin ^a   Nelle, Eckart ^a   Li, Bing ^b   Wang, Lei ^b   Diao, Yun Chen ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cascaded inhibition; Cat; Cortical microcircuits; Push pull mechanism; Relative modulation; Simple cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; GRATING; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SIMULATION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CATS; CELL COUNT; GENICULATE BODIES; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031717901     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050520     Document Type: Article

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