Orientation tuning, but not direction selectivity, is invariant to temporal frequency in primary visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1336-1345

  Moore IV, Bartlett D ^a   Alitto, Henry J ^a   Usrey, W Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; FERRET; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FERRETS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 23044477875     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01224.2004     Document Type: Article

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