Responses of regular spiking and fast spiking cells in turtle visual cortex to light flashes

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 979-993

  Mancilla, Jaime G ^a   Fowler, Michael ^a   Ulinski, Philip S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

EPSPs; Interneurons; IPSPs; Neocortex; Pyramidal cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TURTLE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; LIGHT; REACTION TIME; TURTLES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0032170075     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523898155190     Document Type: Article

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