Orientation selectivity without orientation maps in visual cortex of a highly visual mammal

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-28

  Van Hooser, Stephen D ^a   Heimel, J Alexander F ^a   Chung, Sooyoung ^a   Nelson, Sacha B ^a   Toth, Louis J ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Columns; Functional map; Gray squirrel; Orientation; Primary visual cortex; Rodent; V1

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGING; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOPATHY; SQUIRREL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SCIURIDAE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 12144261189     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4042-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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