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ARTICLE, Behavioral/Systems

How Noise Contributes to Contrast Invariance of Orientation Tuning in Cat Visual Cortex

D. Hansel and C. van Vreeswijk
Journal of Neuroscience 15 June 2002, 22 (12) 5118-5128; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.22-12-05118.2002
D. Hansel
1Laboratoire de Neurophysique et Physiologie du Système Moteur (EP 1848 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Université René Descartes, 75270 Paris cedex 06, France, and
2Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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Journal of Neuroscience 15 June 2002, 22 (12) 5118-5128; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.22-12-05118.2002

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D. Hansel, C. van Vreeswijk
Journal of Neuroscience 15 June 2002, 22 (12) 5118-5128; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.22-12-05118.2002
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    • The effective transfer function for the threshold linear rate model with Gaussian noise
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Keywords

  • orientation selectivity
  • primary visual cortex
  • V1
  • contrast invariance
  • noise
  • integrate-and-fire model
  • conductance-based model

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