Responsiveness of neurons in the posterior inferotemporal cortex to visual patterns in the macaque monkey

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 275-283

  Hikosaka, Kazuo ^a  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Detection of features of visual pattern; Lateral convexity of the gyrus; Macaque monkey; Posterior inferotemporal cortex; Response properties to patterns; Superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MACACA; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0031413654     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00073-9     Document Type: Article

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