The Primary Visual Cortex - Webvision - NCBI Bookshelf
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › books › NBK11524May 01, 2005 · The anatomy of the primate primary visual cortex has been worked out in great detail. The three basic organizing principles of primate V1 are the: 1) laminar and 2) columnar arrangement of excitatory and inhibitory neurons (an arrangement shared with other neocortical areas) and 3) the regular spacing of anatomical/functional compartments revealed by cytochrome oxidase (CO) labeling.
Visual cortex - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_cortexThe primary visual cortex (V1) is located in and around the calcarine fissure in the occipital lobe. Each hemisphere's V1 receives information directly from its ipsilateral lateral geniculate nucleus that receives signals from the contralateral visual hemifield. Neurons in the visual cortex fire action potentials when visual stimuli appear within their receptive field. By definition, the receptive field is the region within the entire visual field that elicits an acti…
Primary visual cortex neurons that contribute to resolve the ...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › 16446037It is traditional to believe that neurons in primary visual cortex are sensitive only or principally to stimulation within a spatially restricted receptive field (classical receptive field). It follows from this that they should only be capable of encoding the direction of stimulus movement orthogonal to the local contour, since this is the only information available in their classical receptive field "aperture."