Representation of surface luminance and contrast in primary visual cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 776-787

  Dai, Ji ^a,b   Wang, Yi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

object identification; physiology; single unit; striate cortex; vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; LUMINANCE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84859060922     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr133     Document Type: Article

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