Collinear Stimuli Induce Local and Cross-Areal Coherence in the Visual Cortex of Behaving Monkeys

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Gilad, Ariel ^a   Meirovithz, Elhanan ^a   Leshem, Amir ^a   Arieli, Amos ^b   Slovin, Hamutal ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; IMAGE PROCESSING; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VOLTAGE SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HAPLORHINI; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

EID: 84869819582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049391     Document Type: Article

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