Receptive field asymmetries produce color-dependent direction selectivity in primate lateral geniculate nucleus

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Tailby, Chris ^a,b   Dobbiem, William J ^c   Solomon, Samuel G ^c   Szmajda, Brett A ^a   Hashemi Nezhad, Maziar ^c   Forte, Jason D ^b   Martin, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blue on; Direction selective; Koniocellular; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Marmoset

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955150189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.8.1     Document Type: Article

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