Fast oscillations display sharper orientation tuning than slower components of the same recordings in striate cortex of the awake monkey

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1453-1465

  Frien, Axel ^a   Eckhorn, Reinhard ^a   Bauer, Roman ^a   Woelbern, Thomas ^a   Gabriel, Andreas ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gamma oscillations; Population activity; Sensory coding; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MACACA; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ORIENTATION; PERIODICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0034090838     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00025.x     Document Type: Article

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