Haphazard wiring of simple receptive fields and orientation columns in visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 468-476

  Ringach, Dario L ^a,b  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENICULATE BODY; HYPOTHESIS; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CATS; NERVE NET; ORIENTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 3042645277     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01202.2003     Document Type: Article

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