Initial neighborhood biases and the quality of motion stimulation jointly influence the rapid emergence of direction preference in visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7258-7266

  van Hooser, Stephen D ^a,b   Li, Ye ^a   Christensson, Maria ^a   Smith, Gordon B ^a,c   White, Leonard E ^d   Fitzpatrick, David ^a,c,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DIRECTIONAL VISION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FERRET; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERRETS; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84861325335     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0230-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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