Diversity, heterogeneity and orientation-dependent variation of spike count correlation in the cat visual cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3611-3627

  Maruyama, Yoshiko ^a   Ito, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Noise correlation; Population coding; Trial variability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CAT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

NOISE CORRELATION; POPULATION CODING; TRIAL VARIABILITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MALE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84897061312     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12363     Document Type: Article

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