Parametric population representation of retinal location: Neuronal interaction dynamics in cat primary visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 9016-9028

  Jancke, Dirk ^a   Erlhagen, Wolfram ^b   Dinse, Hubert R ^c   Akhavan, Amir C ^a   Giese, Martin ^a   Steinhage, Axel ^a   Schöner, Gregor ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cat; Interaction; Neural ensembles; Neural field; Optimal linear estimator; Population code; Population dynamics; Receptive field; Striate cortex; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CAT; CELL INTERACTION; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA NERVE CELL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033570338     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-20-09016.1999     Document Type: Article

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