Negative Correlations in Visual Cortical Networks

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 246-256

  Chelaru, Mircea I ^a   Dragoi, Valentin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

correlations; networks; recurrent model; visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; FISHERMAN; HAPLORHINI; INFORMATION; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VISUAL CORTEX; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; NERVE CELL; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; HAPLORHINI; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NOISE; ORIENTATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84959908960     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu207     Document Type: Article

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