Contrast dependence of contextual effects in primate visual cortex

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6628, 1997, Pages 73-76

  Levitt, Jonathan B ^a   Lund, Jennifer S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030994206     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/387073a0     Document Type: Article

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