Stimulus vignetting and orientation selectivity in human visual cortex

Neural selectivity to orientation is one of the simplest and most thoroughly-studied cortical sensory features. Here, we show that a large body of research that purported to measure orientation tuning may have in fact been inadvertently measuring sensitivity to second-order changes in luminance, a p...

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Main Authors: Zvi N Roth, David J Heeger, Elisha P Merriam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2018-08-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/37241