A stable topography of selectivity for unfamiliar shape classes in monkey inferior temporal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1676-1694

  Op De Beeck, Hans P ^a,b   Deutsch, Jennifer A ^a   Vanduffel, Wim ^b,c   Kanwisher, Nancy G ^a,c   DiCarlo, James J ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; fMRI; Learning; Object recognition; Primate; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EYE POSITION; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 45849091054     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm196     Document Type: Article

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