Natural Stimulation of the Nonclassical Receptive Field Increases Information Transmission Efficiency in V1

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2904-2915

  Vinje, William E ^a   Gallant, Jack L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Information theory; Natural vision; Nonclassical receptive field; Sparse coding; V1

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; EYE MOVEMENT; INFORMATION; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EYE FIXATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MACACA; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMEDIA; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DATA DISPLAY; ENTROPY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; INFORMATION THEORY; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MULTIMEDIA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0036546655     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-07-02904.2002     Document Type: Article

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