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 (Contributor), Benayoun, Marc (Author), Wallace, Edward (Author), van Drongelen, Wim (Author), Goldenfeld, Nigel (Author), Cowan, Jack (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012-07-26T18:56:16Z.
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