Nonlinear signal summation in magnocellular neurons of the macaque lateral geniculate nucleus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1921-1929

  Dhruv, Neel T ^a,c   Tailby, Chris ^a,d,e   Sokol, Sach H ^a   Majaj, Najib J ^a,f   Lennie, Peter ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL VISION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MACACA; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GENICULATE BODIES; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 70349293679     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00331.2009     Document Type: Article

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