Orientation and spatiotemporal tuning of cells in the primary visual cortex of an Australian marsupial, the wallaby Macropus eugenii

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-123

  Ibbotson, M R ^a   Mark, R F ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Marsupial; Orientation tuning; Single unit electrophysiology; Spatiotemporal tuning; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037297781     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-002-0379-6     Document Type: Article

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