Top-down modulation of lateral interactions in visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1773-1789

  Ramalingam, Nirmala ^a   McManus, Justin N J ^a   Li, Wu ^b   Gilbert, Charles D ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPIKE WAVE; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84873041867     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3825-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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