Thalamic filtering of retinal spike trains by postsynaptic summation

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Carandini, Matteo ^a   Horton, Jonathan C ^b   Sincich, Lawrence C ^b  

^a SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Natural statistics; Neural modeling; Receptive field; Retinal ganglion cell; Spike threshold; Temporal frequency

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENICULATE BODY; MACACA; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; GENICULATE BODIES; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 37549038604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.14.20     Document Type: Article

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