Development of Response Timing and Direction Selectivity in Cat Visual Thalamus and Cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2945-2955

  Saul, Alan B ^a,b   Feidler, Jordan C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Direction selectivity; Lagged cells; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Postnatal development; Response timing; Spatiotemporal receptive fields; Temporal frequency; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL FUNCTION; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECORDING; RESPONSE TIME; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; GENICULATE BODY; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; CATS; GENICULATE BODIES; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0036551309     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-07-02945.2002     Document Type: Article

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