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dc.contributor.authorMcCourt, Mark E.
dc.contributor.authorBlakeslee, B.
dc.contributor.authorCope, Davis
dc.description.abstractThe classical receptive fields of simple cells in mammalian primary visual cortex demonstrate three cardinal response properties: 1) they do not respond to stimuli which are spatially homogeneous; 2) they respond best to stimuli in a preferred orientation (direction); and 3) they do not respond to stimuli in other, non-preferred orientations (directions). We refer to these as the Balanced Field Property, the Maximum Response Direction Property, and the Zero Response Direction Property, respectively. These empirically-determined response properties are used to derive a complete characterization of elementary receptive field functions defined as products of a circularly symmetric weight function and a simple periodic carrier. Two disjoint classes of elementary receptive field functions result: the balanced Gabor class, a generalization of the traditional Gabor filter, and a bandlimited class whose Fourier transforms have compact support (i.e., are zero-valued outside of a bounded range). The detailed specification of these two classes of receptive field functions from empirically-based postulates may prove useful to neurophysiologists seeking to test alternative theories of simple cell receptive field structure, and to computational neuroscientists seeking basis functions with which to model human vision.en_US
dc.publisherNorth Dakota State Universityen_US
dc.titleSimple cell response properties imply receptive field structure: balanced Gabor and/or bandlimited field functions [Supplement]en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.typeJournalen_US
dc.sourceJournal of the Optical Society of America, A, 26(9), 2067-2092.en_US
dc.descriptionThis Supplement provides detailed proofs of the main results of the complementary paper. Lemmas 1, 2, 3 and Theorems A.1, A.2, and B.1 are stated in the paper. Appendix A proves Theorems A.1 and A.2. Appendix B proves Theorem B.1. Appendix C proves several miscellaneous results mentioned in the paper. Equation numbering continues the numbering of the paper.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-06T21:29:35Z
dc.date.available2009-07-06T21:29:35Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10365/5418
dc.subjectBandlimiteden_US
dc.subjectBessel functionen_US
dc.subjectFourier transformen_US
dc.subjectGabor filteren_US
dc.subjectHankel transformen_US
dc.subjectReceptive fieldsen_US
dc.subjectSimple cellsen_US
dc.subjectVisual cortexen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf
ndsu.collegeScience and Mathematics
ndsu.departmentMathematics
ndsu.departmentMathematics
ndsu.departmentPsychology
ndsu.programMathematics
ndsu.programMathematics
ndsu.programPsychology


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