Interspike intervals, receptive fields, and information encoding in primary visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1964-1974

  Reich, Daniel S ^a,b   Mechler, Ferenc ^b   Purpura, Keith P ^b   Victor, Jonathan D ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Information; Interspike interval; M sequence; Primary visual cortex; Receptive field; Spike train; Synaptic depression; Synaptic facilitation; Temporal coding; Theory; V1; White noise

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0034161415     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-05-01964.2000     Document Type: Article

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