Evolutionary constraints on visual cortex architecture from the dynamics of hallucinations

In the cat or primate primary visual cortex (V1), normal vision corresponds to a state where neural excitation patterns are driven by external visual stimuli. A spectacular failure mode of V1 occurs when such patterns are overwhelmed by spontaneously generated spatially self-organized patterns of ne...

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Main Authors: Butler, Thomas Charles, Benayoun, Marc, Wallace, Edward, van Drongelen, Wim, Goldenfeld, Nigel, Cowan, Jack
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71849