Contextual influence on orientation discrimination of humans and responses of neurons in V1 of alert monkeys

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 941-954

  Li, Wu ^c   Thier, Peter ^a   Wehrhahn, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MONKEY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 0033951057     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.83.2.941     Document Type: Article

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