The representational capacity of the distributed encoding of information provided by populations of neurons in primate temporal visual cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 149-162

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; FACE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030895916     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005615     Document Type: Article

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