Temporal aspects of neural coding in the retina and lateral geniculate

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages

  Victor, Jonathan D ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENICULATE BODY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037937825     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0954-898X_10_4_201     Document Type: Review

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