Mechanisms of direction selectivity in cat primary visual cortex as revealed by visual adaptation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2615-2623

  Priebe, Nicholas J ^a   Lampl, Ilan ^b   Ferster, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78049507982     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00241.2010     Document Type: Article

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