Specificity of neuronal responses in primary visual cortex is modulated by interhemispheric corticocortical input

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2776-2786

  Schmidt, Kerstin E ^a   Lomber, Stephen G ^b   Innocenti, Giorgio M ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cooling deactivation; corpus callosum; ferret; optical imaging; orientation selectivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERRET; HEMISPHERE; IMAGING; INTERHEMISPHERIC CORTICOCORTICAL INPUT; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VERTICAL MERIDIAN; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FERRETS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77956394707     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq024     Document Type: Article

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