Robust quantification of orientation selectivity and direction selectivity

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Mazurek, Mark ^a   Kager, Marisa ^b,c,d   Van Hooser, Stephen D ^c  

^a METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b Department of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Neural data analysis; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIRECTION INDEX; DIRECTION SELECTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ORIENTATION INDEX; ORIENTATION SELECTIVITY; ORIENTING RESPONSE; POWER ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84905667986     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2014.00092     Document Type: Article

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