Information processing in the primate retina: Circuitry and coding

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-30

  Field, G D ^a   Chichilnisky, E J ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Neural coding; Parallel pathways; Retinal ganglion cells; Synchrony; Vision

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PRIMATES; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34547692641     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.30.051606.094252     Document Type: Review

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