Neuronal connections underlying orientation selectivity in cat visual cortex

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Ferster, David L. Koch, Christof
Copyright Year	1987
Abstract	How do neurons of the visual cortex acquire their acute sensitivity to the orientation of a visual stimulus? The question has preoccupied those who study the cortex since Hubel and Wiesel1 first described orientation selectivity over twenty-five years ago. At the time, they proposed an elegant and enduring model for the origin of orientation selectivity. Fig. 1A, which is adapted from their original paper and which contains the essence of their model, is by now familiar to most students of the visual system and to many others besides. Yet the model, and the central question that it addresses, is still the subject of intense debate. Competing models have arisen in the intervening years, along with diverse experiments that bear on them.
Starting Page	487
Ending Page	492
Page Count	6
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DOI	10.1016/0166-2236(87)90126-3
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Volume Number	10
Journal	Trends in Neurosciences
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article