Stimulus contrast and visual cortical lesions
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G A Orban1, E Vandenbussche, J M Sprague
1Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, K.U. Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, Belgium.
Experimental Brain Research
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Intact animals can make fine orientation discriminations over a wide range of contrasts. After ablation of area 17 deficits in orientation discrimination are observed only at low contrast. The relevance of this finding for the design of sensitive ablation experiments is discussed.