the individual cells' receptive fields have irregular and inconsistent shapes, which could potentially result in patchy coverage of the visual field. To understand how the visual system overcomes ...

"Modeling vision based on a linear receptive field poses several inherent problems: it changes with each input, it presupposes a set of basis functions for the visual system, and it conflicts with ...

Albright, director of the Vision Center Laboratory at of the Salk Institute and an expert on how the visual system works ... characteristics, called receptive fields, have different sizes ...