The role of cortical feedback in the generation of the temporal receptive field responses of lateral geniculate nucleus neurons: A computational modelling study

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 269-277

  Yousif, Nada ^a   Denham, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational modelling; Corticothalamic feedback; Lateral geniculate nulceus; Spatiotemporal receptive fields; Wilson and cowan equations

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FEEDBACK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURONS;

LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS (LGN); SPATIOTEMPORAL RECEPTIVE FIELD (STRF); THALAMOCORTICAL (TC); THALAMOCORTICAL NETWORK;

CELL CULTURE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENICULATE BODY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RETINA GANGLION CELL; TIME; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; REACTION TIME; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34948869798     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-007-0171-3     Document Type: Article

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