Highly selective receptive fields in mouse visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 7520-7536

  Niell, Cristopher M ^a   Stryker, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast invariant tuning; Mouse; Orientation; Receptive field; Spatial frequency; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SPIKE WAVE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; WAVEFORM; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISUAL FIELD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; LINEAR MODELS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 50549087261     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0623-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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