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Receptive Fields

A receptive field is the patch of the world, like a spot on the skin or a region of what you see, that a neuron responds to. Mapping, recording, or characterizing the input that drives a sensory neuron defines that neuron's receptive field.

Part of an early, unfinished explainers project: very much under construction.

Hubel & Wiesel: a cortical neuron in V1. YouTube upload by Ali Moeeny.
Simple and complex cells, with explanations. YouTube upload by Ryan Abbott.

Builds on

Sensory Receptors (coming soon)Spikes and Firing Rate (coming soon)

Leads to

Sensory Pathways (coming soon)Barrel Cortex (coming soon)Hierarchy and Invariance (coming soon)Place Cells

Used in my work

Lustig 2013 VSD barrel cortex