A natural approach to studying vision

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1643-1646

  Felsen, Gidon ^a   Dan, Yang ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NERVE CELL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 28044451318     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1608     Document Type: Review

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