Temporal precision in the neural code and the timescales of natural vision

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7158, 2007, Pages 92-95

  Butts, Daniel A ^a,b   Weng, Chong ^c   Jin, Jianzhong ^c   Yeh, Chun I ^c,d   Lesica, Nicholas A ^a   Alonso, Jose Manuel ^c   Stanley, Garrett B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECISION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; VISUAL CUE;

ARTICLE; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 34548515491     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06105     Document Type: Article

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