Local field potentials and border ownership: A conjecture about computation in visual cortex

Journal of Physiology Paris

Volumn 106, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 297-315

  Zucker, Steven W ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Border ownership; Computational vision; Local field potentials; Neural computation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN FUNCTION; GEOMETRY; GLIA CELL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84868303833     PISSN: 09284257     EISSN: 17697115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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