Representation of visual features of objects in the inferotemporal cortex

Neural Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1459-1475

  Tanaka, Keiji ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

area TE; extrastriate visual cortex; inferotemporal cortex; Macaque monkey; object recognition; object vision; optical imaging; population coding

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

INFEROTEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MONKEY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030296837     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-6080(96)00045-7     Document Type: Article

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