The Elongated Receptive Field of Some Cells in V1 Can

question 24

Multiple Choice

The elongated receptive field of some cells in V1 can be accounted for by

• A) long horizontal axon connections within primary visual cortex.
• B) dense dendritic trees in layers 2 and 3 of primary visual cortex.
• C) the connections of cells from the contralateral hemisphere via the corpus callosum.
• D) intermingling of connections from the LGN in layer 4 of the primary visual cortex.
• E) connections from V2 back onto V1 cells.

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