The responses to illusory contours of neurons in cortex areas 17 and 18 of the cats

Science in China, Series C: Life Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 136-145

  Yifeng, Zhou ^a,c   Fan, Jia ^a   Haiyang, Tao ^a   Tiande, Shou ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cat; Direction selectivity; Illusory contours (ICs); Orientation selectivity; Receptive field

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035308975     PISSN: 10069305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02879318     Document Type: Article

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