Phase-of-Firing Coding of Natural Visual Stimuli in Primary Visual Cortex

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 375-380

  Montemurro, Marcelo A ^a   Rasch, Malte J ^b   Murayama, Yusuke ^c   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a,c   Panzeri, Stefano ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^e ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; MACACA; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

MACACA;

EID: 40349088694     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.02.023     Document Type: Article

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