The receptive-field organization of simple cells in primary visual cortex of ferrets under natural scene stimulation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 4746-4759

  Smyth, Darragh ^a   Willmore, Ben ^b,c   Baker, Gary E ^a,d   Thompson, Ian D ^a   Tolhurst, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area 17; Linear summation; Linearity; Natural images; Natural scenes; Receptive fields; Reverse correlation; Simple cells; V1; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; FERRET; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GRATING; LINEAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0038793884     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-11-04746.2003     Document Type: Article

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