Change detection by thalamic reticular neurons

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1165-1170

  Yu, Xiong Jie ^a,b   Xu, Xin Xiu ^a   He, Shigang ^a   He, Jufang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN NERVE CELL; FEMALE; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RAT; RETICULUM CELL; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 69449084914     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2373     Document Type: Article

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