Oscillatory Neuronal Synchronization in Primary Visual Cortex as a Correlate of Stimulus Selection

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 3739-3754

  Fries, Pascal ^a   Schröder, Jan Hinrich ^b   Roelfsema, Pieter R ^c   Singer, Wolf ^b   Engel, Andreas K ^d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Gamma; Oscillation; Rivalry; Selection; Strabismus; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EYE DOMINANCE; EYE MOVEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CATS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0036581181     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-09-03739.2002     Document Type: Article

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