Spatio temporal receptive field 3996062 163639631 2007-10-10T19:52:57Z Gene Nygaard 146986 what in the world is this link to an unhelpful disambiguation page? The '''spatio temporal receptive field''' (STRF) of a [[neuron]] represents which types of stimuli excite or inhibit that neuron. If [[linearity]] is assumed, the neuron can be modelled as having a time-varying firing rate equal to the [[convolution]] of the stimulus with the STRF. ==Auditory STRFs== The example STRF here is for an [[Primary auditory cortex|auditory neuron]] from the area [[CM]]<!--what in the world is this--> of a male [[zebra finch]], when played [[conspecific]] birdsong. The colour of this plot shows the effect of sound on this neuron: this neuron tends to be excited by sound from about 2.5 kHz to 7 kHz heard by the animal 12 ms ago, but it is inhibited by sound in the same frequency rage from about 18 ms ago. [[Image:STRF.jpg]] This STRF was generated with [http://strfpak.berkeley.edu/]STRFPAK: free software (registration required) to help estimate STRFs. ==Visual STRFs== Visual STRFs can have the same dimension as movies. [[Category:Neurophysiology]] {{neuroscience-stub}}