Modulation of the synchronization between cells in visual cortex by contextual targets

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1539-1554

  Bretzner, Fréderic ^a   Aïtoubah, Jamila ^a   Shumikhina, Svetlana ^a   Tan, Yao Fang ^a   Molotchnikoff, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Area 17; Cats; Neuronal code; Receptive field; Synchronization of spikes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; LOCOMOTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; MOTION PERCEPTION; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0035783958     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0953-816X.2001.01776.x     Document Type: Article

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