Emerging feed-forward inhibition allows the robust formation of direction selectivity in the developing ferret visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2355-2373

  Van Hooser, Stephen D ^a   Escobar, Gina M ^a   Maffei, Arianna ^b,c   Miller, Paul ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

^c SUNY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Feed forward; Hebbian learning; Logical AND gate; Reichardt detector; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FERRET; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; LEARNING; MODEL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENICULATE BODY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FERRETS; GENICULATE BODIES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84901718795     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00891.2013     Document Type: Article

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