Retinal ganglion cells - Spatial organization of the receptive field reduces temporal redundancy

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 914-923

  Tokutake, Yoichiro ^a   Freed, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Center surround; Guinea pig; Information; Redundancy reduction; Retina

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GUINEA PIGS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 50449106612     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06394.x     Document Type: Article

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