A morphological basis for orientation tuning in primary visual cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 872-879

  Mooser, François ^a,b   Bosking, William H ^a,c   Fitzpatrick, David ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DENDRITE; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; AXONS; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; TUPAIIDAE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3342941442     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1287     Document Type: Article

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