Causal evidence for retina-dependent and -independent visual motion computations in mouse cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 960-968

  Hillier, Daniel ^a   Fiscella, Michele ^b   Drinnenberg, Antonia ^a   Trenholm, Stuart ^a   Rompani, Santiago B ^a   Raics, Zoltan ^a   Katona, Gergely ^c,d   Juettner, Josephine ^a   Hierlemann, Andreas ^b   Rozsa, Balazs ^c   Roska, Botond ^a,e  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTEX LAYER II; CORTEX LAYER III; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL CORTICAL CELL; RETINA; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; STRIATE CORTEX; VELOCITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL MOTION PROCESSING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; FRMD7 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 85021436779     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4566     Document Type: Article

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