A Virtual Retina for Studying Population Coding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bomash, Illya ^a   Roudi, Yasser ^a   Nirenberg, Sheila ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION CODING; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIRTUAL RETINA; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84872328490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053363     Document Type: Article

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