Parasol cell mosaics are unlikely to drive the formation of structured orientation maps in primary visual cortex

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 283-299

  Hore, Victoria R A ^a   Troy, John B ^b   Eglen, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hexagonal lattices; Orientation selectivity; PIPP model; Receptive fields; Retinal mosaics

Indexed keywords

CYTOARCHITECTURE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PAIRWISE INTERACTION POINT PROCESS MODEL; PARASOL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRIATE CORTEX;

ANIMALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOIRE TOPOGRAPHY; ORIENTATION; PRIMATES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84870825235     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523812000338     Document Type: Review

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