Feedback from area 21a influences orientation but not direction maps in the primary visual cortex of the cat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 504, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-145

  Tong, Lei ^a   Zhu, Bin ^a   Li, Zhong ^a   Shou, Tiande ^a   Yu, Hongbo ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Area 17; Area 21a; Direction selectivity; Form processing pathway; Intrinsic signal optical imaging; Motion processing pathway; Orientation selectivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEART RATE; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 80053934185     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.09.019     Document Type: Article

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