Sparse coding in striate and extrastriate visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2907-2919

  Willmore, Ben D B ^a   Mazer, James A ^b   Gallant, Jack L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficient coding; Natural vision; Redundancy reduction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRASTRIATE VISUAL CORTEX; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPARSE CODING; STRIATE VISUAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; VALIDITY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79959331122     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00594.2010     Document Type: Article

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