Underlying principles of visual shape selectivity in posterior inferotemporal cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 880-886

  Brincat, Scott L ^a   Connor, Charles E ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINEAR SYSTEM; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3342988001     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1278     Document Type: Article

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