Do cortical neurons process luminance or contrast to encode surface properties?

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2638-2649

  Vladusich, Tony ^a   Lucassen, Marcel P ^b   Cornelissen, Frans W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN CELL; BRIGHTNESS; CONTRAST; LUMINANCE; MACACA; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FORM PERCEPTION; LUMINESCENCE; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PROBABILITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645557199     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01016.2005     Document Type: Article

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