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Squaring cortex with color

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A long-standing puzzle has been the seeming inconsistency between neuronal responses in primary visual cortex to colored stimuli and the elementary perceptual attributes of color vision. Nonlinear analysis resolves this paradox.

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Figure 1: Clustering of V1 neuron color tuning estimated using linear and quadratic models of neural response.

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  1. Brian A. Wandell is in the Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, and,

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  2. E.J. Chichilnisky is at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA.,

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