Laminar organization of response properties in primary visual cortex of the gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3538-3554

  Heimel, J Alexander ^a,b   Van Hooser, Stephen D ^a   Nelson, Sacha B ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ION SELECTIVE ELECTRODE; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SQUIRREL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SCIURIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27144542730     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00106.2005     Document Type: Article

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