Encoding of natural scene movies by tonic and burst spikes in the lateral geniculate nucleus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 47, 2004, Pages 10731-10740

  Lesica, Nicholas A ^a   Stanley, Garrett B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bursts; Integrate and fire; LGN; Natural scenes; Neural coding; Tonic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPIKE; THALAMUS; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; GENICULATE BODIES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PICTURES; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 9344252816     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3059-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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