Heterogeneity in the responses of adjacent neurons to natural stimuli in cat striate cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1326-1341

  Yen, Shih Cheng ^a,b   Baker, Jonathan ^a   Gray, Charles M ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PROBE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STRIATE CORTEX; TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CATS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33846935160     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00747.2006     Document Type: Article

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