The role of feedback in shaping the extra-classical receptive field of cortical neurons: A recurrent network model

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 36, 2006, Pages 9117-9129

  Schwabe, Lars ^a,b,c   Obermayer, Klaus ^a   Angelucci, Alessandra ^b   Bressloff, Paul C ^c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual effects; Horizontal connections; Macaque; Primary visual cortex; Surround suppression; Top down

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MACACA; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33746999061     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1253-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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