supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31171082);the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province(070413138);the Key Research Foundation of the Anhui Provincial Education Department(KJ2009A167);the Foundation of Key Laboratories of Anhui Province and the Anhui Provincial Education Department
The influence of intracortical inhibition on the response adaptation of visual cortical neurons remains in debate. To clarify this issue, in the present study the influence of surround suppression evoked through the l...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31171082);the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (070413138);the Key Research Foundation of the Anhui Provincial Education Department (KJ2009A167);the Foundation of Key Laboratories of Anhui Province and the Anhui Provincial Education Department
The mean firing rate of visual cortical neurons is reduced after prolonged visual stimulation, but the underlying process by which this occurs as well as the biological significance of this phenomenon remains unknown....
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31171082);the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province(070413138);the Key Research Foundation of the Anhui Provincial Education Department(KJ2009A167);the Foundation of Key Laboratories of Anhui Province and the Anhui Provincial Education Department.
The mean firing rate of visual cortical neurons is reduced after prolonged visual stimulation,but the underlying process by which this occurs as well as the biological significance of this phenomenon remains unknown.C...
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31171082);Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (070413138);Key Research Foundation of Anhui Province Education Department (KJ2009A167)
Psychophysical studies suggest that lateral extrastriate visual cortical areas in cats may mediate the sparing of vision largely by network reorganization following lesions of early visual cortical areas. To date, how...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(31171082);Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province(070413138);the Key Research Foundation of Anhui Province Education Department(KJ2009A167)
Psychophysical experiments on human and animal subjects have proven that aged individuals show significantly reduced visual contrast sensitivity compared with young adults.To uncover the possible neural mechanisms,we ...
Supported by Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (070413138);the Key Research Foundation of Anhui Province Education Department (KJ2009A167)
Previous studies have shown that visual cortical neurons in old mammals exhibit higher spontaneous activity,higher responsiveness to visual stimuli,and lower selectivity for stimulus orientations and motion directions...