Impact of noise on retinal coding of visual signals

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1023-1033

  Passaglia, Christopher L ^a,b   Troy, John B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CATS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINALDEHYDE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3142773366     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01089.2003     Document Type: Article

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