Feedforward Origins of Response Variability Underlying Contrast Invariant Orientation Tuning in Cat Visual Cortex

Neuron

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 911-923

  Sadagopan, Srivatsun ^a,b   Ferster, David ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84861921161     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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