Internal state of monkey primary visual cortex (V1) predicts figure-ground perception

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3407-3414

  Supèr, Hans ^a,b   Van der Togt, Chris ^a,b   Spekreijse, Henk ^a   Lamme, Victor A F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cortical state; Figure ground; Monkey; Multiunit recording; Neurophysiology; Perception; Primary visual cortex; V1; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FIGURE GROUND PERCEPTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0038185260     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-08-03407.2003     Document Type: Article

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