Cortical activity influences geniculocortical spike efficacy in the macaque monkey

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2007, Pages

  Briggs, Farran ^a   Usrey, W Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coding; Lateral geniculate nucleus; LGN; Spike rate; V1

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898685367     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.07.003.2007     Document Type: Article

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