Building better models of visual cortical receptive fields.
Scientists usually study the receptive fields of visual cortical neurons by measuring responses to "optimal stimuli." In this issue of Neuron, Rust and colleagues have taken a promising alternative approach: build a receptive field model based on the cell responses to a stimulus subset and then use the model to predict responses to other stimuli.
Alonso
Jose-Manuel
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State University of New York College of Optometry, Department of Biological Sciences, New York, NY 10036, USA.
D000818:Animals; D008251:Macaca; D008959:Models, Neurological; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*