Learning to Link Visual Contours

Neuron

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 442-451

  Li, Wu ^a,b   Piëch, Valentin ^a   Gilbert, Charles D ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FORM PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROC CURVE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 38749147742     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.12.011     Document Type: Article

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