Information in the neuronal representation of individual stimuli in the primate temporal visual cortex

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 309-333

  Rolls, Edmund T ^a   Treves, Alessandro ^b   Tovee, Martin J ^c   Panzeri, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coding; Distributed representation; Grandmother cell; Inferior temporal visual cortex; Vision

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; INFORMATION THEORY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CODING; DISTRIBUTED REPRESENTATION; FIRING RATES; GRANDMOTHER CELL; INFERIOR TEMPORAL VISUAL CORTEX; NEURONAL RESPONSE; SINGLE NEURON; TEMPORAL LOBES; VISUAL CORTEXES; VISUAL STIMULUS;

NEURONS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; MACACA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030782448     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008899916425     Document Type: Article

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