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On the postlateral gyrus of the cat striate cortex the cells' preferred orientation and the location of their receptive fields was measured as a function of cortical depth in penetrations as parallel as possible to the radiating fibres. In most penetrations the majority of infragranular cells showed orientation preferences 45°–90° different from the preferred orientations of supragranular cells. In addition, aggregate receptive fields from the same eye of supra- and infragranular cells were spatially shifted against each other. Using different columnar models these results are discussed in terms of spatial contrast enhancement for two parallel mechanisms in upper and lower layers, determined for pattern discrimination and movement detection.
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Bauer, R. Differences in orientation and receptive field position between supra- and infragranular cells of cat striate cortex and their possible functional implications. Biol. Cybernetics 49, 137–148 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00320394
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