A computational model to link psychophysics and cortical cell activation patterns in human texture processing

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 255-282

  Thielscher, Axel ^a,b   Neumann, Heiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context modulation; Neural model; Psychophysics; Texture processing; Visual search

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MODULATION; VISION;

ACTIVATION PATTERNS; CELL ACTIVITY; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CONTEXT MODULATION; NEURAL MODELLING; PSYCHOPHYSIC; PSYCHOPHYSICAL STUDIES; TEXTURE PROCESSING; TEXTURE SEGMENTATION; VISUAL SEARCH;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 34249885858     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-006-0011-9     Document Type: Article

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