Multiplicative computation in a visual neuron sensitive to looming

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6913, 2002, Pages 320-324

  Gabbiani, Fabrizio ^a,b   Krapp, Holger G ^a,c   Koch, Christoff ^a   Laurent, Gilles ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; DRUG PRODUCTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; NEUROLOGY;

FIRING RATES;

VISION;

SODIUM CHANNEL;

LOCUST;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; LOCUST; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DARKNESS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GRASSHOPPERS; LIGHT; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PICROTOXIN; VISION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0037153152     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01190     Document Type: Article

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