Cooling in cat visual cortex: stability of orientation selectivity despite changes in responsiveness and spike width

Neuroscience

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 777-787

  Girardin, C C ^a   Martin, K A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

area 17; cooling loop; cortical circuitry; orientation tuning; reversible inactivation; spike broadening

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SPIKE WAVE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WARMING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATS; COLD TEMPERATURE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; LINEAR MODELS; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349733404     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.07.064     Document Type: Article

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