Neuronal responses to object images in the macaque inferotemporal cortex at different stimulus discrimination levels

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 41, 2006, Pages 10524-10535

  Suzuki, Wataru ^a,b   Matsumoto, Kenji ^a   Tanaka, Keiji ^a,c  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inferotemporal cortex; Monkey; Object discrimination; Stimulus selectivity; Task dependence; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION TEST; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33749832266     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1532-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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