Distortions of visuotopic map match orientation singularities in primary visual cortex

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6633, 1997, Pages 594-598

  Das, Aniruddha ^a   Gilbert, Charles D ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEM; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0030925941     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42461     Document Type: Article

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