Converging neuronal activity in inferior temporal cortex during the classification of morphed stimuli

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 760-776

  Akrami, Athena ^a   Liu, Yan ^b   Treves, Alessandro ^a   Jagadeesh, Bharathi ^b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractor neural network; Firing rate adaptation; Inferior temporal cortex; Monkey behavior; Vision; Visual classification

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SIMULATION; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 67651095867     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn125     Document Type: Article

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