Spatiotemporal profiles of receptive fields of neurons in the lateral posterior nucleus of the cat LP-pulvinar complex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2390-2403

  Piché, Marilyse ^a   Thomas, Sébastien ^a   Casanova, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortico thalamo cortical pathways; Electrophysiology; Reverse correlation; Thalamus; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; MICROELECTRODE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THALAMUS LATERAL NUCLEUS; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CATS; LATERAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84944810553     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00649.2015     Document Type: Article

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