Relative luminance and binocular disparity preferences are correlated in macaque primary visual cortex, matching natural scene statistics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 6313-6318

  Samonds, Jason M ^a   Potetz, Brian R ^b   Lee, Tai Sing ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b University of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Illusion; Neuronal coding; Stereopsis; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CELL POPULATION; FEMALE; LUMINANCE; MACACA; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84859962719     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200125109     Document Type: Article

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