Distinct Mechanisms for Top-Down Control of Neural Gain and Sensitivity in the Owl Optic Tectum

Neuron

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 698-708

  Winkowski, Daniel E ^a   Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOREBRAIN; GAZE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROSENCEPHALON; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRIGIFORMES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 56349153571     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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