Trade-off between curvature tuning and position invariance in visual area V4

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

Volumn 110, Issue 28, 2013, Pages 11618-11623

  Sharpee, Tatyana O ^a,b   Kouh, Minjoon ^a,b,c   Reynolds, John H ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature selectivity; Gabor model; Natural stimuli; Object recognition; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STIMULUS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

FEATURE SELECTIVITY; GABOR MODEL; NATURAL STIMULI; OBJECT RECOGNITION; VISION;

HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84879939903     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217479110     Document Type: Article

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