Receptive field

Layer 3 — Biologyin the systems-neuroscience subtree

Region of sensory space whose stimulation modulates a neuron's firing. V1 simple cells have oriented Gabor-like RFs (Hubel-Wiesel 1981 Nobel); auditory neurons have spectro-temporal RFs; somatosensory cortex has body-map RFs.

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