Mouse V1 population correlates of visual detection rely on heterogeneity within neuronal response patterns

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue December2015, 2015, Pages

  Montijn, Jorrit S ^a   Goltstein, Pieter M ^a,b   Pennartz, Cyriel M A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VISION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84955260676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.10163     Document Type: Article

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