GABA-induced inactivation of functionally characterized sites in cat striate cortex: Effects on orientation tuning and direction selectivity

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 141-158

  Crook, John M ^a,b   Kisvárday, Zoltan F ^a   Eysel, Ulf T ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cat area 17; Cross orientation inactivation; Intracortical inhibition; Iso orientation inactivation; Orientation direction selectivity; Recurrent excitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842335718     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095252380000883X     Document Type: Article

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