Object perception in natural scenes: Encoding by inferior temporal cortex simultaneously recorded neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1342-1357

  Aggelopoulos, Nikolaos C ^a   Franco, Leonardo ^a   Rolls, Edmund T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; NONHUMAN; OBJECT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; INFORMATION THEORY; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 14144253468     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00553.2004     Document Type: Article

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