Rapid dynamics of contrast responses in the cat primary visual cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Hu, Ming ^a,b   Wang, Yong ^a,b   Wang, Yi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAT; CELL FUNCTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRATING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SHIFT TO THE LEFT; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRIATE CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CATS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 80053607868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025410     Document Type: Article

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