Receptive field properties of single neurons in rat primary visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 301-311

  Girman, Sergej V ^a   Sauvé, Yves ^b   Lund, Raymond D ^b  

^a KOL TSOV INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0032797965     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.1.301     Document Type: Article

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