Experience-dependent sharpening of visual shape selectivity in inferior temporal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1631-1644

  Freedman, David J ^a,b   Riesenhuber, Maximilian ^c   Poggio, Tomaso ^a,d   Miller, Earl K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Inferior temporal cortex; Learning; Object recognition; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; LEARNING; MONKEY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FORM PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33749539428     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj100     Document Type: Article

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