A shared inhibitory circuit for both exogenous and endogenous control of stimulus selection

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 473-478

  Mysore, Shreesh P ^a   Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; MESENCEPHALON; NUCLEUS ISTHMI PARS MAGNOCELLULARIS; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TEGMENTUM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FEMALE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 84875653882     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3352     Document Type: Article

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