Dynamics of stimulus-evoked spike timing correlations in the cat lateral geniculate nucleus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3276-3292

  Ito, Hiroyuki ^a   Maldonado, Pedro E ^b   Gray, Charles M ^c  

^a KYOTO SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; RETINA;

EID: 78650907155     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01000.2009     Document Type: Article

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