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  • Title: Relationship between spatial and spatial-frequency characteristics of receptive fields of cat visual cortex.
    Author: Glezer VD, Gauzel'man VE, Shcherbach TA.
    Journal: Neurosci Behav Physiol; 1985; 15(6):511-9. PubMed ID: 4094684.
    Abstract:
    The spatial (magnitude and eccentricity) and spatial-frequency (optimum frequency and width of pass band) characteristics of the receptive fields of the cat visual cortex were investigated. It was shown that in accordance with the predictions of the theory of piecewise Fourier analysis, linear and quasilinear receptive fields of a single size comprise a modulus in each of the fields of which the index of complexity (ratio of size of field to number of periods of its optimum frequency) equals the optimum frequency multiplied by a coefficient that is constant for the given modulus. Five moduli were found with field sizes of 2.6, 3.8, 5.2, 6.2, and 7.0 degrees, shifting with increase in the size of the modulus towards the periphery of the field of view. In accordance with predictions, when the index of complexity is fixed the width of the pass band declines inversely proportionately to the size of the fields. The obtained data directly support the hypothesis according to which the receptive fields effect a piecewise quasi-Fourier expansion of the image.
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