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SUBMITTER: Kapadia MK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC18414 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kapadia M K MK Westheimer G G Gilbert C D CD
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19991001 21
One of the fundamental tasks of the visual cortex is to integrate input from different parts of the retina, parsing an image into contours and surfaces, and then assembling these features into coherent representations of objects. To examine the role of the primary visual cortex in the integration of visual information, we measured the response properties of neurons under different stimulus conditions. Surprisingly, we found that even the most conventional measures of receptive field (RF) size we ...[more]