Global and fine information coded by single neurons in the temporal visual cortex

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6747, 1999, Pages 869-873

  Sugase, Yasuko ^a,b,c   Yamane, Shigeru ^a   Ueno, Shoogo ^c   Kawano, Kenji ^a  

^a ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; FACE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MACACA; NEURONS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033606975     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23703     Document Type: Article

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