Is the early visual system optimised to be energy efficient?

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 175-190

  Vincent, Benjamin T ^a   Baddeley, Roland J ^a   Troscianko, Tom ^a   Gilchrist, Iain D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coding; Cortex; Energy efficiency; Optimal; Retina

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 30344456995     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: 13616536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09548980500290047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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