Collinear stimuliregulate visual responses depending on cell's contrast threshold

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6667, 1998, Pages 580-584

  Polat, Uri ^a,b   Mizobe, Keiko ^a,c   Pettet, Mark W ^a   Kasamatsu, Takuji ^a   Norcia, Anthony M ^a  

^a SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Institute for Vision Research Rehovot   (Israel)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; CATS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; NEURONS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032484712     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35372     Document Type: Article

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