Physiological properties of macaque V1 neurons are correlated with extracellular spike amplitude, duration, and polarity

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1451-1464

  Gur, Moshe ^a,b   Beylin, Alexander ^a,b   Snodderly, D Max ^b,c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POLARITY; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032820592     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.3.1451     Document Type: Article

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