Visual cortical simple cells: Who inhibits whom

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 667-673

  Saul, Alan B ^a  

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

Author keywords

Adaptation aftereffects; Direction selectivity; Negative feedback; Response timing; Spatiotemporal quadrature

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033166426     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095252389916406X     Document Type: Article

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