Synchronous activity in cat visual cortex encodes collinear and cocircular contours

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2602-2616

  Samonds, Jason M ^a,b,c   Zhou, Zhiyi ^a   Bernard, Melanie R ^a   Bonds, A B ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRODE; IMAGE DISPLAY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FORM PERCEPTION; NERVE NET; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646182830     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01070.2005     Document Type: Article

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