Visual responses of crayfish ocular motoneurons: An information theoretical analysis

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 247-269

  Miller, C S ^a   Johnson, D H ^b   Schroeter, J P ^a   Myint, L ^a   Glantz, R M ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Encoding window; Kullback Leibler; Optomotor; Rate code; Reflex; Vision

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); SIGNAL ENCODING; VISION;

CORRELATION; DIRECTIONAL SELECTIVITY; ENCODING WINDOW; ENCODINGS; KULLBACK-LEIBLER; OPTOMOTOR; RATE CODES; REFLEX; VISUAL MOTION; VISUAL RESPONSE;

NEURONS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE; BEHAVIORISM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA REFLEX; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRAYFISH; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 0242383530     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025873027017     Document Type: Article

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