Complex cell receptive fields: Evidence for a hierarchical mechanism

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 588, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3457-3470

  van Kleef, Joshua P ^a   Cloherty, Shaun L ^a   Ibbotson, Michael R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL; CELL TYPE; GRATING; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77956715807     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.191452     Document Type: Article

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