A fast and simple population code for orientation in primate V1

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 10618-10626

  Berens, Philipp ^a,b,c,d   Ecker, Alexander S ^a,b,c,d   James Cotton, R ^d   Ma, Wei Ji ^d   Bethge, Matthias ^a,b,c   Tolias, Andreas S ^b,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center Tübingen   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; LOGISTIC MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84864426631     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1335-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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