Contribution of individual retinal ganglion cell responses to velocity and acceleration encoding

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2285-2296

  Thiel, Andreas ^a   Greschner, Martin ^a,c   Eurich, Christian W ^b   Ammermüller, Josef ^a   Kretzberg, Jutta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STEADY STATE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELLS, CULTURED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICROELECTRODES; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TURTLES;

EID: 35348913737     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01342.2006     Document Type: Article

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