Contrast gain control in the visual cortex: Monocular versus binocular mechanisms

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 3017-3032

  Truchard, Anthony M ^a   Ohzawa, Izumi ^a   Freeman, Ralph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular vision; Cat; Contrast gain control; Nonlinearity; Simple cells; Striate cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CAT; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; MONOCULAR VISION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0034655118     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-08-03017.2000     Document Type: Article

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