Emergence of orientation selectivity in the mammalian visual pathway

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 10616-10624

  Scholl, Benjamin ^a   Tan, Andrew Y Y ^a   Corey, Joseph ^a   Priebe, Nicholas J ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; INTERNEURON; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84879298064     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0404-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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