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Mechanisms of encoding the spatiotemporal information in natural scenes by striate cortical neurons

Reference	S12063
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Ian Thompson
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Dr David John Tolhurst
Institution	University of Oxford
Department	Physiology Anatomy and Genetics
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	178,558
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/05/2000
End date	31/10/2003
Duration	42 months

Abstract

The response of the visual cortical neurones in the ferret to flashed or moved natural scenes will be examined using standard neurophysiological techniques and reverse- correlation analysis. To what extent is this predictable from the response to the simple visual stimuli traditionally used to characterise receptive fields? Initially, the analysis will be restricted to the spatial characteristics of natural scenes by using flashed stimuli. Next spatiotemporal selectivity will be assayed using movies created to mimic either self- or object-generated motion. Windowed and spatially-filtered stimuli will be used to isolate anticipated non- linearities affecting neuronal selectivity and/or responsivity.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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