Quadrature subunits in directionally selective simple cells: Spatiotemporal interactions

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 357-371

  Emerson, Robert C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional selectivity; Nonlinear mechanisms; Receptive field subunits; Simple cells; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031103875     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800011482     Document Type: Article

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