Title: "How is Color Represented in the Visual Cortex?"

 

Terry Sejnowski

The Salk Institute

 

Abstract:

The response properties of neurons in the visual cortex are modulated nonlinearly by stimuli outside the classically defined receptive field.  The center and the non-classical surround are separable when the response is conditioned on the number of spikes. This allows global information from cortical feedback pathways to be integrated into early stages of visual processing through a Bayesian context.