Dendritic asymmetry cannot account for directional responses of neurons in visual cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 820-824

  Anderson, J C ^a   Binzegger, T ^a   Kahana, O ^b   Martin, K A C ^a   Segev, I ^b  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CAT; CELL TYPE; DENDRITE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; HAPLORHINI; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0033359592     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/12194     Document Type: Article

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