Modeling the apparent frequency-specific suppression in simple cell responses

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1535-1543

  Nestares, Oscar ^a   Heeger, David J ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast normalization; Simple cell; Spatial frequency; Striate cortex; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAT; MODEL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STRIATE CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CATS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030988240     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00268-4     Document Type: Article

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