How Noise Contributes to Contrast Invariance of Orientation Tuning in Cat Visual Cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 5118-5128

  Hansell, David ^a,b,c   Van Vreeswijk, C ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Lab Neurophys Physiol Syst M   (France)

Author keywords

Conductance based model; Contrast invariance; Integrate and fire model; Noise; Orientation selectivity; Primary visual cortex; V1

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAT; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; KINETICS; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0037096277     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-12-05118.2002     Document Type: Article

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