The influence of corticofugal feedback on the temporal structure of visual responses of cat thalamic relay cells

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 509, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 797-815

  Worgotter F ^a   Nelle, E ^a   Li, B ^a   Funke, K ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; QUISQUALIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS; VISUAL ACUITY; ADULT; CORTICOFUGAL FEEDBACK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; INTERNEURON; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; STRIATE CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; CATS; COLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RETINA; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 2642681674     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.797bm.x     Document Type: Article

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