Virtual Lesions
Subtitle: Examining Cortical Function with Reversible Deactivation
Contributors: Stephen Lomber (Editor); Ralf Galuske (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 12, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780198508939
First sentence: It is 40 years since Hubel and Wiesel (1962) showed that cells in primary visual cortex (area 17) respond selectively to contours of a certain orientation and that most of these cells also show a preference for the direction of motion of optimally oriented contours.