Weakened feedback abolishes neural oblique effect evoked by pseudo-natural visual stimuli in area 17 of the cat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 437, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-70

  Shen, Wei ^a   Liang, Zhiyin ^a   Shou, Tiande ^a,b,c  

^a Institute of Genetics   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Area 17; Area 21a; Feedback; Oblique effect; Optical imaging; Orientation preference

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 42749086181     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.03.054     Document Type: Article

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