Effects of contrast and contrast adaptation on static receptive field features in macaque area V1

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2033-2050

  Durand, Jean Baptiste ^a   Girard, Pascal ^a   Barone, Pascal ^a   Bullier, Jean ^a   Nowak, Lionel G ^a  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Contrast; Static receptive field; V1; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MACACA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84867171628     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00936.2011     Document Type: Article

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