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1Institut für Zoologie der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Arbeitsgruppe III (Biophysik), D-6500 Mainz G.F.R.
Neuroscience Letters
|July 17, 2009
Abstract:
A new method is demonstrated for continuously mapping direction selectivity on complex cells in the cat's visual cortex. A large area random noise pattern which always covers the whole receptive field area is moved along a circular path. The average response histogram yields the cell's selectivity for stimulus direction directly and in much less time than the conventional methods.
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