Stimulus dependence of two-state fluctuations of membrane potential in cat visual cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 617-621

  Anderson, Jeffrey ^a   Lampl, Ilan ^a   Reichova, Iva ^a   Carandini, Matteo ^b   Ferster, David ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; CATS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORIENTATION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0034090426     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/75797     Document Type: Article

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