Retinal oscillations carry visual information to cortex

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2009, Pages

  Koepsell, Kilian ^a   Wang, Xin ^b   Vaingankar, Vishal ^b   Wei, Yichun ^b   Wang, Qingbo ^b   Rathbun, Daniel L ^c   Usrey, W Martin ^c   Hirsch, Judith A ^b   Sommer, Friedrich T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

LGN; Natural stimuli; Oscillations; Retina; Visual coding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890865275     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.06.004.2009     Document Type: Article

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