Response variability and information transfer in directional neurons of the mammalian horizontal optokinetic system

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 207-215

  Clifford, Colin W G ^a,b   Ibbotson, Michael R ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Motion; Neural coding; Nucleus of the optic tract; Vision; Wallaby

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MAMMAL; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SPIKE WAVE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MACROPODIDAE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; VISION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0034011909     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800172037     Document Type: Article

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