Stimulus-selective spiking is driven by the relative timing of synchronous excitation and disinhibition in cat striate neurons in vivo

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1286-1300

  Azouz, Rony ^a   Gray, Charles M ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitation; Inhibition; Synaptic conductances; Synaptic integration; Synchronization; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAT; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; CELL MEMBRANE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 53149104375     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06434.x     Document Type: Article

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