Untuned suppression makes a major contribution to the enhancement of orientation selectivity in macaque V1

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 44, 2011, Pages 15972-15982

  Xing, Dajun ^a   Ringach, Dario L ^b   Hawken, Michael J ^a   Shapley, Robert M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; ORIENTATION SELECTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 80155123436     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2245-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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