How Selective Are V1 Cells for Pop-Out Stimuli?

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 31, 2003, Pages 9968-9980

  Hegdét, Jay ^a,b   Felleman, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding; Center surround summation; Contextual modulation; Feature integration; Figure ground segregation; Serial search; Striate cortex; Surround modulation; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL AREA 1 NERVE CELL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0242526156     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-31-09968.2003     Document Type: Article

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