The suppressive field of neurons in lateral geniculate nucleus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 47, 2005, Pages 10844-10856

  Bonin, Vincent ^a,b   Mante, Valerio ^a,b   Carandini, Matteo ^a,b  

^a SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cat; Gain control; Inhibition; Masking; Receptive field

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MASKING; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GENICULATE BODIES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27944452840     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3562-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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