Gating and control of primary visual cortex by pulvinar

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 905-912

  Purushothaman, Gopathy ^a   Marion, Roan ^a   Li, Keji ^b   Casagrande, Vivien A ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; PULVINAR; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STRIATE CORTEX; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRIMATES; PULVINAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84861571469     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3106     Document Type: Article

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