Computational Role of Large Receptive Fields in the Primary Somatosensory Cortex
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Computational role of large receptive fields in the primary somatosensory cortex.
Computational studies are challenging the intuitive view that neurons with broad tuning curves are necessarily less discriminative than neurons with sharp tuning curves. In the context of somatosensory processing, broad tuning curves are equivalent to large receptive fields. To clarify the computational role of large receptive fields for cortical processing of somatosensory information, we reco...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurophysiology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0022-3077,1522-1598
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01015.2007