Functional micro-organization of primary visual cortex: Receptive field analysis of nearby neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 4046-4064

  DeAngelis, Gregory C ^a,c   Ghose, Geoffrey M ^a,d   Ohzawa, Izumi ^a   Freeman, Ralph D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Columnar organization; Correlation; Neuron; Phase coding; Receptive field; Reverse correlation; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033562793     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-10-04046.1999     Document Type: Article

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