Neuronal nonlinearity explains greater visual spatial resolution for darks than lights

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3170-3175

  Kremkow, Jens ^a   Jin, Jianzhong ^a   Komban, Stanley J ^a   Wang, Yushi ^a   Lashgari, Reza ^a   Li, Xiaobing ^a   Jansen, Michael ^a   Zaidi, Qasim ^a   Alonso, Jose Manuel ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Area V1; Irradiation illusion; Lateral geniculate nucleus; LFP; Neuronal coding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LUMINANCE; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEURONAL NONLINEARITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA IMAGE; THALAMUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AREA V1; IRRADIATION ILLUSION; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LFP; NEURONAL CODING;

ANIMALS; CATS; DARK ADAPTATION; DARKNESS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896885242     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310442111     Document Type: Article

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