Dynamic contrast change produces rapid gain control in visual cortex

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 586, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4107-4119

  Crowder, N A ^b   Hietanen, M A ^a   Price, N S C ^c   Clifford, C W G ^d   Ibbotson, Michael R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA IMAGE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FIRING RATE; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL; SPIKE WAVE; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CORNEA; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 51749083528     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.156273     Document Type: Article

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