A population approach to cortical dynamics with an application to orientation tuning

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 247-260

  Omurtag, A ^a   Kaplan, E ^a,b   Knight, B ^a,b   Sirovich, L ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GENICULATE BODY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0042761933     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0954-898X_11_4_301     Document Type: Article

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