A model for the depth-dependence of receptive field size and contrast sensitivity of cells in layer 4C of macaque striate cortex

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 613-629

  Bauer, Ute ^a   Scholz, Michael ^c   Levitt, Jonathan B ^b   Obermayer, Klaus ^c   Lund, Jennifer S ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Area V1; Computational; Contrast; M and P channels; Receptive field

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BRAIN CELL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MONKEY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STELLATE CELL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0344527845     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00172-2     Document Type: Article

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