Orientation and direction selectivity of neurons in V1 of alert monkeys: Functional relationships and laminar distributions

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1207-1221

  Gur, Moshe ^a,b   Kagan, Igor ^a,b   Snodderly, D Max ^b,c,d  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaving monkey; Circular variance; Primary visual cortex; Receptive fields; Spontaneous activity; V1 layers

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXCITATION; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 23244436698     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhi003     Document Type: Article

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