Development of orientation tuning in simple cells of primary visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2506-2516

  Moore IV, Bartlett D ^a   Freeman, Ralph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonlinearity; Orientation selectivity; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; KITTEN; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; ORIENTATION TUNING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CATS; GENICULATE BODIES; ORIENTATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84860515201     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00719.2011     Document Type: Article

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