On the importance of static nonlinearity in estimating spatiotemporal neural filters with natural stimuli

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2496-2509

  Sharpee, Tatyana O ^a,b   Miller, Kenneth D ^a,c   Stryker, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEARING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CATS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 47549118116     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01397.2007     Document Type: Article

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