Detection and discrimination of relative spatial phase by V1 neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 6129-6157

  Mechler, Ferenc ^a   Reich, Daniel S ^a   Victor, Jonathan D ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Congruence phase; Edge; Feature discrimination; Line; Macaque; Phase selective nonlinearity; Primary visual cortex; Simple and complex cells; Spatial feature detection; Transinformation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0037101625     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-14-06129.2002     Document Type: Article

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