Visual orientation and directional selectivity through thalamic synchrony

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 9073-9088

  Stanley, Garrett B ^a   Jin, Jianzhong ^b   Wang, Yushi ^b   Desbordes, Gaëlle ^a   Wang, Qi ^a   Black, Michael J ^c   Alonso, Jose Manuel ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPIKE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PERIODICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84862847029     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4968-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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