Selective elimination of corticogeniculate feedback abolishes the electroencephalogram dependence of primary visual cortical receptive fields and reduces their spatial specificity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 7021-7033

  Eyding, Dirk ^a,e   Macklis, Jeffrey D ^b   Neubacher, Ute ^a   Funke, Klaus ^a,d   Wörgötter, Florentin ^c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e PAION Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corticogeniculate loop; Neuronal apoptosis; Photoactivation of chlorin e 6; Receptive field characteristics; State dependence; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENICULATE BODY; INTERNEURON; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPIKE; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0041624554     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-18-07021.2003     Document Type: Article

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