The role of the primary visual cortex in perceptual suppression of salient visual stimuli

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 37, 2010, Pages 12353-12365

  Keliris, Georgios A ^a   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a,c   Tolias, Andreas S ^a,b,d,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; MALE; MODULATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BINOCULAR VISION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE DOMINANCE; NERVE TRACT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RHESUS MONKEY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77956851687     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0677-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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