The influence of the corticothalamic projection on responses in thalamus and cortex

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1428, 2002, Pages 1823-1834

  Wörgötter, Florentin ^a   Eyding, Dirk ^b   Macklis, Jeffrey D ^c   Funke, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticothalamic feedback; Gating processes; State dependence; Targeted cell death; Visual thalamus

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 17344389395     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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