Direction selectivity of excitation and inhibition in simple cells of the cat primary visual cortex

Neuron

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 133-145

  Priebe, Nicholas J ^a   Ferster, David ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATION; FEMALE; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECORDING; SPATIAL SUMMATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; CELL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 11344254404     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2004.12.024     Document Type: Article

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