Laminar differences in the spatiotemporal structure of simple cell receptive fields in cat area 17

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 239-256

  Murthy, A ^a   Humphrey, Allen L ^a,b   Saul, A B ^a   Feidler, J C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITION   (United States)

Author keywords

Direction selectivity; Laminar location; Linear summation; Nonlinear responses; Receptive fields; Response timing; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAT; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SENSORY NERVE CELL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CATS; CELL MOVEMENT; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032031425     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523898152045     Document Type: Article

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