Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 9 , Pages 1199-1203 , October 2010

Surround modulation of neuronal responses in V1 is as stable over time as responses to direct stimulation of receptive fields

  • Sergiu P. Paşca

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt (Main), Germany
    • Center for Cognitive and Neural Studies (Coneural), Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    • ,
  • Wolf Singer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt (Main), Germany
    • Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt (Main), Germany
    • ,
  • Danko Nikolić

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt (Main), Germany
    • Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt (Main), Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Deutschordenstraße 46, D-60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Received 24 November 2009 ,Revised 28 April 2010 ,Accepted 13 May 2010.

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PII: S0010-9452(10)00149-8

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.05.003

Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 9 , Pages 1199-1203 , October 2010

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