Contextual modulation in primary visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 7376-7389

  Zipser, Karl ^a,c   Lamme, Victor A F ^b,c   Schiller, Peter H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

awake macaque monkey; context modulation; figure ground segregation; nonclassical receptive field; primary visual cortex; single unit activity; surface perception; texture; visual perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0029851166     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-22-07376.1996     Document Type: Article

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