Linear and nonlinear contributions to the visual sensitivity of neurons in primate lateral geniculate nucleus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1884-1898

  Solomon, Samuel G ^a   Tailby, Chris ^a,b   Cheong, Soon K ^b   Camp, Aaron J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL VISION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL FUNCTION; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MAGNOCELLULAR TRACT; MALE; MARMOSET; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE TRACT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PARVOCELLULAR TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPIKE TRIGGERED AVERAGE ANALYSIS; SPIKE TRIGGERED COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; GENICULATE BODIES; LINEAR MODELS; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77957827917     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01118.2009     Document Type: Article

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