Contrast affects speed tuning , space - time slant , and receptive - field organization of simple cells in macaque
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stimuli. We found that the space-time slant of the receptive field of directional simple cells differed for high and low contrast stimuli, with the space-time slant predicting higher optimum speeds for the higher contrast stimuli; i.e. there was a larger spatial shift of the receptive-field organization per unit time. Not only did the space-time maps of directional simple cells show different slants between high and low contrast stimuli, but they also showed a different organization, because for high-contrast stimuli the maps tended to show a complete inversion of the receptive-field spatial organization at long delays after stimulus onset, with initial excitation followed by suppression and initial suppression followed by excitation, but for low-contrast stimuli the receptive-field organization showed only a quadrature shift over time. We show that a simple modification of earlier models for the generation of direction-selective simple cells can account for these observations.
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Contrast affects speed tuning, space-time slant, and receptive-field organization of simple cells in macaque V1.
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