Spatiotemporal adaptation through corticothalamic loops: A hypothesis

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 107-118

  Hillenbrand, Ulrich ^a   Van Hemmen, J Leo ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Control loop; Corticothalamic feedback; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Motion analysis; Object segmentation

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CATS; GENICULATE BODIES; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHILOSOPHY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0034122517     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800171111     Document Type: Article

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