Strength and orientation tuning of the thalamic input to simple cells revealed by electrically evoked cortical suppression

Neuron

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1177-1189

  Chung, Sooyoung ^a   Ferster, David ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CAT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0032103335     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80498-5     Document Type: Article

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