Perception-related Modulations of Local Field Potential Power and Coherence in Primary Visual Cortex of Awake Monkey during Binocular Rivalry

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 300-313

  Gail, Alexander ^a,b   Brinksmeyer, Hans Joerg ^a   Eckhorn, Reinhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Object coding; Synchronization; V1; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRODE; EYE; HYPOTHESIS; MONKEY; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INDIVIDUALITY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1342288550     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhg129     Document Type: Article

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