Cortical sensitivity to visual features in natural scenes

PLoS Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Felsen, Gidon ^a,b   Touryan, Jon ^a,c   Han, Feng ^a   Dan, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; COVARIANCE; RANDOMIZATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; CAT; CYTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CATS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 26444492519     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030342     Document Type: Article

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