Feedforward Excitation and Inhibition Evoke Dual Modes of Firing in the Cat's Visual Thalamus during Naturalistic Viewing

Neuron

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 465-478

  Wang, Xin ^a   Wei, Yichun ^a   Vaingankar, Vishal ^a   Wang, Qingbo ^a   Koepsell, Kilian ^b   Sommer, Friedrich T ^b   Hirsch, Judith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITATION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA; SLEEP; SPIKE; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MOTION PICTURES; NATURE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34547212864     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.06.039     Document Type: Article

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