Spike timing and visual processing in the retinogeniculocortical pathway

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1428, 2002, Pages 1729-1737

  Usrey, W Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Multielectrode; Retina; Spike timing; Synchrony; Thalamus; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; FELIS; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0037196084     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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