Representation of Concurrent Stimuli by Population Activity in Visual Cortex

Neuron

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 931-942

  Busse, Laura ^a,b   Wade, Alex R ^b,c   Carandini, Matteo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 72149119066     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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