Gabor patches are sinusoidal gratings with a Gaussian aperture. They contain information a single spatial frequency, and are used as a model of the receptive field of simple cells in V1, and are therefore often used in visual psychophysics as stimuli. They're also used in computer vision and image processing, as any image can be represented as a sum of Gabor patches, analogously to a fourier transform.
Gabor patches are sinusoidal gratings with a Gaussian aperture. They contain information a single spatial frequency, and are used as a model of the receptive field of simple cells in V1, and are therefore often used in visual psychophysics as stimuli. They're also used in computer vision and image processing, as any image can be represented as a sum of Gabor patches, analogously to a fourier transform.