Laminar and orientation-dependent characteristics of spatial nonlinearities: Implications for the computational architecture of visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3414-3432

  Victor, Jonathan D ^a   Mechler, Ferenc ^a   Ohiorhenuan, Ifije ^a   Schmid, Anita M ^a   Purpura, Keith P ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL CAT; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 72749101720     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00086.2009     Document Type: Article

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