Computation of motion direction by quail retinal ganglion cells that have a nonconcentric receptive field

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 263-271

  Uchiyama, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Kanaya, Takahide ^a   Sonohata, Shoichi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Directional selectivity; Motion perception; Quail; Retinal ganglion cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MODEL; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COTURNIX; FEMALE; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0034057217     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800172086     Document Type: Article

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