Separability of stimulus parameter encoding by on-off directionally selective rabbit retinal ganglion cells

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2083-2099

  Nowak, Przemyslaw ^a   Dobbins, Allan C ^a   Gawne, Timothy J ^a   Grzywacz, Norberto M ^b   Amthor, Franklin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Population coding; Receptive field; Trigger feature; Tuning curve; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; LUMINANCE; NONHUMAN; ON OFF DIRECTIONALLY SELECTIVE RETINA GANGLION CELL; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; VELOCITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RABBITS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 79956264803     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00941.2010     Document Type: Article

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