Stimulus size dependence of information transfer from retina to thalamus

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2009, Pages

  Uglesich, Robert ^a   Casti, Alex ^b   Hayot, Fernand ^c   Kaplan, Ehud ^c  

^a Cooper Union ^*  (United States)

^b The Mount Sinai School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Information transmission; Retina; Stimulus size; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956475290     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.06.010.2009     Document Type: Article

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