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feature detector: a standalone construct

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Sensory neuroscience

neuron that responds selectively to a specific behaviourally relevant feature of a stimulus, such as a small moving dark spot.

In sensory neuroscience, feature detector refers to neuron that responds selectively to a specific behaviourally relevant feature of a stimulus, such as a small moving dark spot. This meaning comes from Lettvin (1959) in Proceedings of the IRE.[1]

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feature2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs spot3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs stimulus3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Lettvin, J., Maturana, H., McCulloch, W., & Pitts, W. (1959). What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain. Proceedings of the IRE, 47(11), 1940-1951. https://doi.org/10.1109/jrproc.1959.287207

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