Neocortical layer 4 as a pluripotent function linearizer

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1342-1360

  Favorov, Oleg V ^a   Kursun, Olcay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Feed forward inhibition; Orientation tuning; Radial basis function; Simple cell; V1

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAT; LEARNING; LINEAR SYSTEM; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION;

EID: 79955136690     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00708.2010     Document Type: Article

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