Playing the electric light orchestra—how electrical stimulation of visual cortex elucidates the neural basis of perception

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1677, 2015, Pages

  Cicmil, Nela ^a   Krug, Kristine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; ELECTRIC FIELD; LIGHT EFFECT; PERCEPTION; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OPTOGENETICS; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 84938516392     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0206     Document Type: Review

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