Subpopulations of neurons in visual area V2 perform differentiation and integration operations in space and time

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2009, Pages

  Schmid, Anita M ^a   Purpura, Keith P ^a   Ohiorhenuan, Ifije E ^a   Mechler, Ferenc ^a   Victor, Jonathan D ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonlinear mapping; Receptive fields; Reverse correlation; Single cortical neurons; Texture boundary computation; V2; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952259097     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.06.015.2009     Document Type: Article

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