Activity of inferior temporal cortical neurons predicts recognition choice behavior and recognition time during visual search

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2825-2836

  Mruczek, Ryan E B ^a   Sheinberg, David L ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice probability; Inferotemporal cortex; Neurophysiology; Object recognition; Primate; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947319164     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4102-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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