Which of the following stimuli will lead to the greatest firing rate in the cell in the striate cortex that is being recorded?
Answer Chosen was: The receptive field with a black bar filling the central field.
This answer is correct. The light falls completely fills the excitatory surrounds
creating a maximum of excitation and the black region completely fills the inhibitory
region keeping inhibition to a minimum.
(Coren,
Ward, & Enns, 1994).
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