High response reliability of neurons in primary visual cortex (V1) of alert, trained monkeys

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 888-895

  Gur, Moshe ^a   Snodderly, D Max ^b,c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaving monkey; Fano factor; Primary visual cortex; Response variability; V1 layers

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646883466     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj032     Document Type: Article

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