Decorrelation of neural activity during fixational instability: Possible implications for the refinement of V1 receptive fields

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 725-738

  Rucci, Michele ^a   Casile, Antonino ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational model; Microsaccade; Ocular drift; Orientation selectivity; Striate cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAT; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FIXATION FAILURE; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA IMAGE; SENSORY NERVE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; GENICULATE BODIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 12144267658     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523804215073     Document Type: Article

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