The stimulus selectivity and connectivity of layer six principal cells reveals cortical microcircuits underlying visual processing

Neuron

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1431-1443

  Vélez Fort, Mateo ^a   Rousseau, Charly V ^a   Niedworok, Christian J ^a   Wickersham, Ian R ^b   Rancz, Ede A ^a   Brown, Alexander P Y ^a   Strom, Molly ^a   Margrie, Troy W ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOCORTICAL PATHWAY; EVOKED RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; LAYER SIX PRINCIPAL CELL; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84922018753     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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