The response dynamics of primate visual cortical neurons to simulated optical blur

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 411-420

  Risner, Michael L ^a   Gawne, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; LUMINANCE; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA FOVEA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRIMATES; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 75149188149     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523809990174     Document Type: Article

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