Responses to contour features in macaque area V4

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2490-2502

  Pasupathy, Anitha ^a,b   Connor, Charles E ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0032693649     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.5.2490     Document Type: Article

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