Neuronal selectivity, population sparseness, and ergodicity in the inferior temporal visual cortex

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 547-560

  Franco, Leonardo ^a   Rolls, Edmund T ^b   Aggelopoulos, Nikolaos C ^b   Jerez, Jose M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CORRELATION METHODS; GENE ENCODING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NEURONS;

MACAQUES; POPULATION SPARSENESS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULI;

VISION;

MACACA; PRIMATES;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; EYE FIXATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; PROBABILITY; TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FIXATION, OCULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRIMATES; PROBABILITY; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34249705194     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-007-0149-1     Document Type: Article

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