Learning to see the difference specifically alters the most informative V4 neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 6589-6602

  Raiguel, Steven ^a   Vogels, Rufin ^a   Mysore, Santosh G ^a   Orban, Guy A ^a,b  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Extrastriate; Monkey; Orientation; Perceptual learning; Single cell; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; VISION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; MACACA; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745790746     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0457-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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