The potential importance of saturating and supersaturating contrast response functions in visual cortex

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Peirce, Jonathan W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjunction; Contrast gain control; Saturation; Supersaturation; V1; V2

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34247853464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.6.13     Document Type: Article

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