Probing feature selectivity of neurons in primary visual cortex with natural stimuli

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5467, Issue , 2004, Pages 212-222

  Sharpee, T ^a   Sugihara, H ^a   Kurgansky, A V ^a   Rebrik, S ^a   Stryker, M P ^a   Miller, K D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information theory; Primary visual cortex; Receptive fields; Reverse correlation; White noise

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; PRIMARY VISUAL VORTEX; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; REVERSE CORRELATION;

CORRELATION THEORY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION THEORY; NEUROLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WHITE NOISE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 4344678684     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.548513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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