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The cells in the visual cortex area 1 (V1) and area 2 (V2) show context dependent modulation in their responses. Suppressive as well as modulatory effects from stimuli well outside the classical receptive field are observed. This is attributed to the long-range horizontal connections in the visual cortex. In our work we have carried out contextual effect experiments with our corticocortical connections model. Our simulation results confirm the suppressive as well as the modulatory effects. We are proposing that the surround effect phenomenon can be used for camouflage perception.
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Mandal, A.S. (2012). Contextual Effects in the Visual Cortex Area 1 (V1) and Camouflage Perception. In: Kundu, M.K., Mitra, S., Mazumdar, D., Pal, S.K. (eds) Perception and Machine Intelligence. PerMIn 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27387-2_5
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