Strobe rearing reduces direction selectivity in area 17 by altering spatiotemporal receptive-field structure

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2991-3004

  Humphrey, Allen L ^a   Saul, Alan B ^a  

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

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; DIRECTIONAL VISION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HISTOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; STROBOSCOPY; TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0032433198     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.6.2991     Document Type: Article

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