A subspace reverse-correlation technique for the study of visual neurons

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2455-2464

  Ringach, Dario L ^a   Sapiro, Guillermo ^b   Shapley, Robert ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat; Macaque monkey; Reverse correlation; Simple cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DRAWING; LUMINANCE; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; WHITE NOISE;

ANIMALS; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031239196     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00247-7     Document Type: Article

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