The mechanism of orientation selectivity in primary visual cortex without a functional map

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4049-4064

  Hansel, David ^a,b   van Vreeswijk, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; EXCITATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84858394882     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6284-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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