Inferotemporal cortex and object vision

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue , 1996, Pages 109-139

  Tanaka, Keiji ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

extrastriate visual cortex; macaque monkey; object vision; optical imaging; population coding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL MATURATION; COLUMNAR EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0029881112     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ne.19.030196.000545     Document Type: Review

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