Figure-ground modulation in awake primate thalamus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 7085-7090

  Jones, Helen E ^a   Andolina, Ian M ^a   Shipp, Stewart D ^a   Adams, Daniel L ^b   Cudeiro, Javier ^c   Salt, Thomas E ^a   Sillito, Adam M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Feedback; Figure ground discrimination; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Perception; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REFRACTORY PERIOD; RHESUS MONKEY; THALAMUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; GENICULATE BODY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GENICULATE BODIES; MACACA MULATTA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; THALAMUS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84930656727     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405162112     Document Type: Article

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