Orientation selectivity of synaptic input to neurons in mouse and cat primary visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 34, 2011, Pages 12339-12350

  Tan, Andrew Y Y ^a   Brown, Brandon D ^a   Scholl, Benjamin ^a   Mohanty, Deepankar ^a   Priebe, Nicholas J ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION SELECTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 80052172676     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2039-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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