Functional organization of the cat visual cortex in relation to the representation of a uniform surface

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1112-1125

  Tani, Toshiki ^a,b   Yokoi, Isao ^a   Ito, Minami ^a   Tanaka, Shigeru ^c   Komatsu, Hidehiko ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CAT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURONS; OPTICS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0037322534     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00478.2002     Document Type: Article

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