Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Cross-orientation suppression in visual area V2

  • Ryan J. Rowekamp,
  • Tatyana O. Sharpee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15739
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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V2 neurons exhibit complex and diverse selectivity for visual features. Here the authors use a statistical analytical framework to model V2 responses to natural stimuli and find three organizing principles, chief among them is the cross-orientation suppression that increases response selectivity.