Anterior inferotemporal neurons of monkeys engaged in object recognition can be highly sensitive to object retinal position

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3264-3278

  DiCarlo, James J ^a,b   Maunsell, John H R ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECOGNITION; RETINA IMAGE; RHESUS MONKEY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETINA; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038278741     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00358.2002     Document Type: Article

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