Functional consequences of neuronal divergence within the retinogeniculate pathway

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2166-2185

  Yeh, Chun I ^a,b,c   Stoelzel, Carl R ^b   Weng, Chong ^a   Alonso, Jose Manuel ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL FIELD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; CELL COUNT; GENICULATE BODIES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; RETINA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 65949119514     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.91088.2008     Document Type: Article

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