On the significance of temporally structured activity in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-119

  Funke, Klaus ^a   Wörgötter, Florentin ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BICUCULLINE METHIODIDE; CALCIUM; RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; CODING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; REVIEW; SLEEP; STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; VISION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0342276106     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0082(97)00032-4     Document Type: Review

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