Dynamic response properties of visual neurons and context-dependent surround effects on receptive fields in the tectum of the salamander Plethodon shermani

Neuroscience

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 617-632

  Schuelert, N ^a,b   Dicke, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Excitatory receptive field; Inhibitory surround; Object recognition; Object selection; Single cell recording

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PLETHODON SHERMANI; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SALAMANDER; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; URODELA; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 23444458926     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.04.051     Document Type: Article

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