Maske R, Yamane S, Bishop P O
Vision Res. 1984;24(12):1921-9. doi: 10.1016/0042-6989(84)90026-9.
If a cell is to serve as a depth detector in a local stereopsis mechanism, it could indicate the depth of a specific object feature by responding only when that feature is located at the cell's preferred depth and being silent at other depths, the preferred depth varying from cell to cell over a small range. In order to assign a depth value to a particular object feature, the two receptive fields of the cell should respond to one and the same feature in the visual field. This can be done only if the organizations of the two receptive fields are identical or nearly so. Out of 31 cells in the simple family in the cat striate cortex, 15 were selected as having a monocular response from each eye sufficient to be able to examine their receptive field organizations in quantitative detail. The two receptive fields of each cell were remarkably similar in respect to the number, spatial sequence and position disparities of the response peaks to moving light and dark bars, as well as in respect to the relative ocular dominances, peak separations and direction selectivities of the response peaks to the two kinds of bar.
如果一个细胞要在局部立体视觉机制中充当深度探测器，它可以通过仅在特定物体特征位于该细胞的偏好深度时做出反应，而在其他深度保持沉默来指示该特征的深度，细胞的偏好深度在小范围内因细胞而异。为了给特定的物体特征赋予深度值，细胞的两个感受野应该对视野中的同一个特征做出反应。只有当两个感受野的结构相同或几乎相同时才能做到这一点。在猫纹状皮层简单细胞家族的31个细胞中，选择了15个细胞，它们每只眼睛都有足以进行定量详细检查其感受野结构的单眼反应。每个细胞的两个感受野在对移动的亮条和暗条的反应峰值数量、空间序列和位置差异方面，以及在对两种条的反应峰值的相对眼优势、峰值间距和方向选择性方面都非常相似。
