Modulation of temporal precision in thalamic population responses to natural visual stimuli

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Desbordes, Gaëlle ^a   Jin, Jianzhong ^b   Alonso, Jose Manuel ^b   Stanley, Garrett B ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Lateral geniculate nucleus; Natural scenes; Population coding; Spike precision; Thalamus; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SPIKE WAVE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 78650879711     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2010.00151     Document Type: Article

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