Effects of remote stimulation on the modulated activity of cat retinal ganglion cells

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2467-2476

  Passaglia, Christopher L ^a   Freeman, Daniel K ^a   Troy, John B ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast gain control; Maintained discharge; Nonlinear subunits; Receptive field; Shift effect; X And Y cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL CAT; GRATING; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA X CELL; RETINA Y CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 61449207113     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4110-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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