Information conveyed by onset transients in responses of striate cortical neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 6978-6990

  Müller, James R ^a   Metha, Andrew B ^a   Krauskopf, John ^b   Lennie, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast gain; Detectability (d'); Discriminability; Gain control; Mean to variance ratio; Orientation selectivity; Refractoriness; Reliability; Striate cortex; Synaptic depression; Variability; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EYE MOVEMENT; MACACA; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0035449482     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-17-06978.2001     Document Type: Article

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