Psychophysically tuned divisive normalization approximately factorizes the PDF of natural images

Neural Computation

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3179-3206

  Malo, Jesús ^a   Laparra, Valero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; LETTER; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78649661352     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/NECO_a_00046     Document Type: Letter

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