Identification and characterization of a Y-like primate retinal ganglion cell type

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 41, 2007, Pages 11019-11027

  Petrusca, Dumitru ^a   Grivich, Matthew I ^a   Sher, Alexander ^a   Field, Greg D ^b   Gauthier, Jeffrey L ^b   Greschner, Martin ^b   Shlens, Jonathon ^b   Chichilnisky, E J ^b   Litke, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Microelectrode array; Neural coding; Primate; Retinal ganglion cell; Vision; Y cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 35348916659     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2836-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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