The physiological responses of simple and complex cells in the primary visual cortex (V1)
have been studied extensively and modeled at different levels. At the functional level, the …

The linear receptive field describes a map** from sensory stimuli to a one-dimensional
variable governing a neuron's spike response. However, traditional receptive field …

In systems neuroscience, neural activity that represents movements or sensory stimuli is
often characterized by spatial tuning curves that may change in response to training …

Neuronal populations in sensory cortex represent time-changing sensory input through a
spatiotemporal code. What are the rules that govern this code? We measured membrane …

Sensory adaptation is a phenomenon in which neurons are affected not only by their
immediate input but also by the sequence of preceding inputs. In visual cortex, for example …

A central theme of systems neuroscience is to characterize the tuning of neural responses to
sensory stimuli or the production of movement. Statistically, we often want to estimate the …

The magnitude of neural responses in sensory cortex depends on the intensity of a stimulus
and its probability of being observed within the environment. How these two variables …

The intrinsic functional architecture of early cortical areas in highly visual mammals is
characterized by the presence of domains and pinwheels, with orientation preference of the …

In V1, local circuitry depends on the position in the orientation map: close to pinwheel
centers, recurrent inputs show variable orientation preferences; within iso-orientation …

The spatial organization and dynamic interactions between excitatory and inhibitory synaptic
inputs that define the receptive field (RF) of simple cells in the cat primary visual cortex (V1) …