"Black" responses dominate macaque primary visual cortex V1

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 38, 2009, Pages 11753-11760

  Yeh, Chun I ^a   Xing, Dajun ^a   Shapley, Robert M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COLOR; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349326560     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1991-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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