Signaling of the strongest stimulus in the owl optic Tectum

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5186-5196

  Mysore, Shreesh P ^a   Asadollahi, Ali ^a   Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GAZE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRENGTH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BIOPHYSICS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); NITROUS OXIDE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRIGIFORMES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955706769     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4592-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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