Representational capacity of face coding in monkeys

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 498-505

  Abbott, L F ^a,c   Rolls, Edmund T ^a   Tovee, Martin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; MACACA; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RHESUS MONKEY; SPIKE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; INFORMATION THEORY; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0029954372     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/6.3.498     Document Type: Article

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