How task-related are the responses of inferior temporal neurons?

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 207-214

  Vogels, Rufin ^a   Sáry, Gyula ^a   Orban, Guy A ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Inferior temporal cortex; Memory; Task related effects; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE FIXATION; MACACA; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION;

ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0029257474     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800007884     Document Type: Article

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