Inhibitory contributions to spatiotemporal receptive-field structure and direction selectivity in simple cells of cat area 17

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1212-1224

  Murthy, Aditya ^a,b   Humphrey, Allen L ^a  

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

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE METHIODIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SPIKE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033018550     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.81.3.1212     Document Type: Article

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