Spatio-temporal correlations and visual signalling in a complete neuronal population

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7207, 2008, Pages 995-999

  Pillow, Jonathan W ^a   Shlens, Jonathon ^b   Paninski, Liam ^c   Sher, Alexander ^d   Litke, Alan M ^d   Chichilnisky, E J ^b   Simoncelli, Eero P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGNALING; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL STIMULATION; MACACA; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TIME FACTORS; VISION;

EID: 50049100348     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07140     Document Type: Article

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