Extraction of surface-related features in a recurrent model of V1-V2 interactions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Weidenbacher, Ulrich ^a   Neumann, Heiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; TWO DIMENIONAL IMAGING; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM; BINOCULAR VISION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67650080187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005909     Document Type: Article

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