An analysis of orientation and ocular dominance patterns in the visual cortex of cats and ferrets

Neural Computation

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2573-2595

  Muller T ^a   Stetter, M ^a   Hubener M ^b   Sengpiel, F ^b   Bonhoeffer, T ^b   Godecke I ^c   Chapman, B ^d   Lowel S ^e   Obermayer, K ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Actipac Biosystems GmbH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN MAPPING; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FERRET; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NON-PROGRAMMATIC; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; FERRETS; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0034323445     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976600300014854     Document Type: Article

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