title: [Simulation of the role of intracortical inhibition as a source of sensitivity to cross-like figures].
abstract: Simulation of receptive fields of striate neurons sensitive to cross-like figures under the blockade of intracortical inhibition was performed. It was shown that without the inhibition, a neuron with convergence of signals from two orientation detectors widens its tuning to a cross in such a way that the tuning becomes invariant to the shape and orientation of the cross. Detector of a cross whose orientation is based on the disinhibition mechanisms becomes a bar orientation detector under conditions of inhibition blockade. Another scheme of receptive field is advanced, in which the inhibitory zones mask tuning to cross-like figures, but the blockade of inhibition unveils such sensitivity. We specified the features of the receptive fields (shape, localization, and weight of their zones), which, being applied in simulation, imitate properties of the real striate neurons sensitive to shape and orientation of a cross-like figures.
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Saltykov
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Shevelev
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009433:Neural Inhibition / Q000502:physiology; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*