title: Building better models of visual cortical receptive fields.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: State University of New York College of Optometry, Department of Biological Sciences, New York, NY 10036, USA.
authors.forename: Jose-Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Alonso
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D008251:Macaca; D008959:Models, Neurological; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*