Excitatory convergence of Y and non-Y channels onto single neurons in the anterior ectosylvian visual area of the cat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2945-2956

  Wang, C ^a   Dreher, B ^a   Assaad, N ^a   Ptito, M ^a,b   Burke, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Detection of fast motion; Direction selectivity eye dominance profiles; Selective block of Y channel; Sensory convergence

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; EYE; FACILITATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VELOCITY; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CATS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MICROELECTRODES; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRESSURE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0032449616     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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