Spatial and temporal structure of receptive fields in primate somatosensory area 3b: Effects of stimulus scanning direction and orientation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 495-510

  DiCarlo, James J ^a,b   Johnson, Kenneth O ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Cortical layer; Monkey; Orientation sensitivity; Receptive field; Reverse correlation; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MACACA; MODEL; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 0033995270     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-01-00495.2000     Document Type: Article

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