Representation of Visual World in the Striate Cortex

  • Stjepan Marčelja
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Part of the Proceedings in Life Sciences book series (LIFE SCIENCES)

Abstract

This article roughly corresponds to my second lecture on the subject of vision presented at the Summer School. In the first lecture, I have described basic design and operation of visual pathways from the retina to the primary visual area VI of the visual cortex. Many excellent descriptions of this subject exist in the literature (e.g. Kuffler and Nicholls 1976), and I shall here introduce only the basic concepts.

Keywords

Spatial Frequency Visual Cortex Receptive Field Complex Cell Modulation Transfer Function 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Stjepan Marčelja
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  1. 1.Department of Applied Mathematics, Research School of Physical SciencesAustralian National UniversityCanberraAustralia

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