title: How uncertainty bounds the shape index of simple cells.
abstract: We propose a theoretical motivation to quantify actual physiological features, such as the shape index distributions measured by Jones and Palmer in cats and by Ringach in macaque monkeys. We will adopt the uncertainty principle associated to the task of detection of position and orientation as the main tool to provide quantitative bounds on the family of simple cells concretely implemented in primary visual cortex.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000)2010: 62P10, 43A32, 81R15.
authors.affiliation: CAMS, EHESS/CNRS, 190-198, Avenue de France, 75244, Paris, France. davide.barbieri8@gmail.com.
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authors.lastname: Citti
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