Coding strategies in monkey V1 and inferior temporal cortices

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1135-1144

  Gershon, Ethan D ^a   Wiener, Matthew C ^a   Latham, Peter E ^a   Richmond, Barry J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b Laboratory of Neuropsychology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONKEY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0031940946     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.79.3.1135     Document Type: Article

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