Does corticothalamic feedback control cortical velocity tuning?

Neural Computation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 327-355

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

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS; TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

FEEDBACK; GENICULATE BODIES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0035259569     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976601300014565     Document Type: Article

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