Table 1.

Computational model parameters, values and literature references.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.16178.010

Description	Symbol	Mean value	Refs.
Receptive field size full width half max	${\displaystyle W_x}$	2.0 mm	Hubel and Wiesel, 1974; Van Essen et al., 1984; Read and Cumming, 2003; Chen et al., 2012
Orientation tuning bandwidth full width half max	${\displaystyle W_{\theta }}$	40 deg	De Valois etal., 1982; Vogels and Orban, 1990; Ringach et al., 2002; Nauhaus et al., 2008; Nowak and Barone, 2009; Palmer et al., 2012
Fraction of tuned response	${\displaystyle f_{\theta }}$	0.9	Ringach et al., 2002; Finn et al., 2007; Nowak and Barone, 2009; Palmer et al., 2012
Spiking non-linearity exponent	${\displaystyle n_s}$	3.0	Anderson et al., 2000; Hansel and van Vreeswijk, 2002; Miller and Troyer, 2002; Priebe et al., 2004; Tan et al., 2014
Contrast semi-saturation distribution constant	${\displaystyle p_{50}}$	0.5 (${\displaystyle \overline{C_{50}}}$ = 30%)	Albrecht and Hamilton, 1982; Sclar et al., 1990; Geisler and Albrecht, 1997