Contribution of cholinergic and GABAergic mechanisms to direction tuning, discriminability, response reliability, and neuronal rate correlations in macaque middle temporal area

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 16602-16615

  Thiele, Alexander ^a   Herrero, Jose L ^a   Distler, Claudia ^b   Hoffmann, Klaus Peter ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 AMINO 2 (3 CARBOXYPROPYL) 6 (4 METHOXYPHENYL) PYRIDAZINIUM BROMIDE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ACETYLCHOLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPIKE WAVE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PYRIDAZINES; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84870048954     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0554-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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