Tag: v1

• Fitting a convolutional model of V1

  Fresh off the press from NIPS 2012 is a paper by Vintch et al on a convolutional model of V1. Unsurprisingly, the convolutional model (or as they call it, the subunit model) beats the crap out of an STC-based model since it captures the same basic features of the RFs in a much lower dimensional…

  November 18, 2012

• In the eyes of a cat

  U of C grad student and former undergrad minion of mine Kyler Brown has a demonstration of the “Cat Cam” data over at Bytes and Spikes. The movie was created by attaching a camera to a freely roaming cat in a natural environment and playing it back to an eye-tracked cat. So you get both…

  September 19, 2011