Stimulus contrast and visual cortical lesions
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Experimental Brain Research
- Vol. 72 (1), 191-194
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00248515
Abstract
Intact animals can make fine orientation discriminations over a wide range of contrasts. After ablation of area 17 deficits in orientation discrimination are observed only at low contrast. The relevance of this finding for the design of sensitive ablation experiments is discussed.Keywords
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