Asymmetric suppression outside the classical receptive field of the visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 10536-10553

  Walker, Gary A ^a   Ohzawa, Izumi ^a   Freeman, Ralph D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat; Extracellular recordings; Figure ground segregation; Nonclassical receptive field; Primary visual cortex; Single unit activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0033492874     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-23-10536.1999     Document Type: Article

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