Receptive field structure of neurons in monkey primary visual cortex revealed by stimulation with natural image sequences

Journal of Vision

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 12-24

  Ringach, Dario L ^a   Hawken, Michael J ^b   Shapley, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear non linear model; Primate; Recursive least squares; Reverse correlation; System identification; Triggered correlation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GRATING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; MACACA; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION;

ANIMALS; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036979671     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/2.1.2     Document Type: Article

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