Natural versus synthetic stimuli for estimating receptive field models: A comparison of predictive robustness

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1560-1576

  Talebi, Vargha ^a   Baker, Curtis L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; FEMALE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STIMULUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 84856628624     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4661-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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