Contrast-Invariant Orientation Tuning in Cat Visual Cortex: Thalamocortical Input Tuning and Correlation-Based Intracortical Connectivity

This work was supported by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute predoctoral fellowship (A.E.K.), the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience (T.W.T.), an NEI predoctoral training grant (N.J.P.), and a Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Research Grant, the Searles Scholars’ Program, and the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust (K.D.M.). We thank P. Bush, A. J. Doupe, M. Crair, S. G. Lisberger, T. J. Sejnowski, and D. Buonomono for helpful comments on this manuscript, and P. Bush for many helpful discussions.

T.W.T. and A.E.K. contributed equally to this work.

Correspondence should be addressed to: Kenneth Miller, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus, San Francisco, CA 94143-0444.