Modeling contextual modulation in the primary visual cortex

Neural Networks

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1182-1196

  Huang, Wentao ^a   Jiao, Licheng ^a   Jia, Jianhua ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Collinear facilitation; Computational model; Contextual modulation; Cross orientation facilitation; Primary visual cortex; Surround suppression

Indexed keywords

COLLINEAR FACILITATION; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONTEXTUAL MODULATION; CROSS-ORIENTATION FACILITATION; PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX; SURROUND SUPPRESSION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MECHANISMS; MODEL STRUCTURES; MODULATION; POLARIZATION; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ARTICLE; COLLINEAR FACILITATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS ORIENTATION FACILITATION; FACILITATION; MODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURROUND SUPPRESSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 53249132720     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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