Modulation of neural responses in inferotemporal cortex during the interpretation of ambiguous photographs

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3059-3073

  Liu, Yan ^a   Jagadeesh, Bharathi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Classification; Macaque; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SAMPLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 45149083899     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06263.x     Document Type: Article

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