Orientation biased extended surround of the receptive field of cat retinal ganglion cells

Neuroscience

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 207-212

  Shou, T ^a,b,c   Wang, W ^b   Yu, H ^a,b  

^a School of Life Sciences   (China)

^b Dept Chem Phys Univ Sci T   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cat; Extended surround; Orientation; Receptive field; Retinal ganglion cells

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; ORIENTATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034117187     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(00)00129-9     Document Type: Article

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