Effects of category learning on the stimulus selectivity of macaque inferior temporal neurons

Learning and Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 717-727

  De Baene, Wouter ^a   Ons, Bart ^a   Wagemans, Johan ^a   Vogels, Rufin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CATEGORY LEARNING; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRAINING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FORM PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 51649107609     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1040508     Document Type: Article

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