Receptive field properties of neurons in the early visual cortex revealed by local spectral reverse correlation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3269-3280

  Nishimoto, Shinji ^a,b   Ishida, Tsugitaka ^a   Ohzawa, Izumi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Areas 17 and 18; Cat; Early visual cortex; Local spectral reverse correlation; Shape selectivity; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; SPIKE WAVE; VISUAL CORTEX; WHITE NOISE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645299030     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4558-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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