Object category structure in response patterns of neuronal population in monkey inferior temporal cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 4296-4309

  Kiani, Roozbeh ^a,c   Esteky, Hossein ^a,b   Mirpour, Koorosh ^b   Tanaka, Keiji ^d,e  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34447500578     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00024.2007     Document Type: Article

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