Assessment of brightness and color differences by neurons in the superior colliculus of the rabbit

Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 971-983

  Polyanskii, V B ^a   Alymkulov, D E ^a   Evtikhin, D V ^a   Sokolov, E N ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Early and late phasic discharges; Four dimensional color and achromatic space; Superior colliculus neurons; Tonic activity; Vector coding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRIGHTNESS; CELL SPECIFICITY; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GENICULATE BODY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; GENICULATE BODIES; LIGHT; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; RABBITS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 56349140621     PISSN: 00970549     EISSN: 1573899X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11055-008-9084-4     Document Type: Article

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