Independence of visuotopic representation and orientation map in the visual cortex of the cat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 957-968

  Buzás, Péter ^a   Volgushev, Maxim ^a   Eysel, Ulf T ^a   Kisvárday, Zoltán F ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Areas 17 and 18; Electrophysiology; Optical imaging; Orientation map; Receptive field scatter; Visuotopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA; RETINA IMAGE; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0042819684     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02808.x     Document Type: Article

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