Disinhibition outside receptive fields in the visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 5659-5668

  Walker, Gary A ^a,c   Ohzawa, Izumi ^a,d   Freeman, Ralph D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disinhibition; Figure ground; Nonclassical receptive field; Receptive field; Single cortical neurons; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CAT; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STRIATE CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0036662889     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-13-05659.2002     Document Type: Article

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