Functionally distinct inhibitory neurons at the first stage of visual cortical processing

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1300-1308

  Hirsch, Judith A ^a   Martinez, Luis M ^b   Pillai, Cinthi ^a   Alonso, Jose Manuel ^c   Wang, Qingbo ^a   Sommer, Friedrich T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d Redwood Neuroscience Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECORDING; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CATS; INTERNEURONS; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0344442827     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1152     Document Type: Article

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