%0 Journal Article %J Biol Cybern %D 1989 %T Horizontal organization of orientation-sensitive cells in primate visual cortex. %A Baxter, Bill %A Dow, B M %K Animals %K Electron Transport Complex IV %K Form Perception %K Models, Neurological %K Pattern Recognition, Visual %K Visual Cortex %X

In the visual cortex of the monkey the horizontal organization of the preferred orientations of orientation-selective cells follows two opposing rules: (1) neighbors tend to have similar orientation preferences, and (2) many different orientations are observed in a local region. We have described a classification for orientation maps based on the types of topological singularities and the spacing of these singularities relative to the cytochrome oxidase blobs. Using the orientation drift rate as a measure we have compared simulated orientation maps to published records of horizontal electrode recordings.

%B Biol Cybern %V 61 %P 171-82 %8 07/1989 %G eng %U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2548628 %N 3 %R 10.1007/BF00198764