Population responses in V1 encode different figures by response amplitude

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 6335-6349

  Gilad, Ariel ^a   Slovin, Hamutal ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amplitude code; Behaving monkeys; Figure ground; Object representation; Primary visual cortex; Voltage sensitive dye imaging

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CRANIOTOMY; EYE POSITION; HAPLORHINI; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SALIENCE NETWORK; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION LEARNING TEST; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLTAGE SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; MACACA FASCICULARIS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84929380145     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0971-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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