Suppression on neuronal responses by a metacontrast masking stimulus in monkey V4

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-33

  Kondo, Hideki ^a,b   Komatsu, Hidehiko ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Macaque monkey; Metacontrast masking; Single unit recording; Surround inhibition; Temporal characteristics; V4

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLOR; MASKING; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MACACA; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033968743     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(99)00104-2     Document Type: Article

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