Recursive features of circular receptive fields

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 43 - Trang 199-208 - 1982
Georg Hartmann1
1Fachbereich Elektrotechnik-Elektronik, Universität-Gesamthochschule-Paderborn, Paderborn, FRG

Tóm tắt

The distribution of excitability in retinal receptive fields may be well approximated by functions with recursive features. Physiological data do not exclude an implementation of recursive structures in the visual system. It is the most remarkable advantage of a recursive visual system, that cortical receptive fields tuned to different spatial frequencies will have an identical neuronal circuitry. Structural consequences for retina, LGN and visual cortex are discussed.

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