Intra-cortical inhibition prevents simple cells from responding to textured visual patterns

D. Burr; C. Morrone; L. Maffei

doi:10.1007/BF00238391

Intra-cortical inhibition prevents simple cells from responding to textured visual patterns

D. Burr, C. Morrone, L. Maffei

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Abstract

Evidence is presented that simple cells in the cat striate cortex (area 17) fail to respond to two dimensional random patterns but respond vigorously to one dimensional patterns with identical power at the preferred orientation of the cell. Further observations suggest that complex cells inhibit simple cells so as to permit them to respond selectively to one-dimensional stimuli. Implications for the role of this inhibition in visual analysis are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	455-458
Number of pages	4
Journal	Experimental Brain Research
Volume	43
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00238391
Publication status	Published - Aug 1981

Keywords

Complex cells
Intracortical inhibition
Orientation tuning
Random visual patterns
Simple cells
Visual cortex

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Neuroscience(all)

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