The Embedded Neuron, the Enactive Field?

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chirimuuta, Mazviita ^a   Gold, Ian ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational vision; Contrast discrimination; Primary visual cortex; Psychophysics; Receptive field; Visual neurons; Visual neurophysiology; Visual theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923514465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195304787.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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