Spatial frequency components influence cell activity in the inferotemporal cortex

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 421-428

  Bermudez, Maria A ^a   Vicente, Ana F ^a   Romero, Maria C ^a   Perez, Rogelio ^a,b   Gonzalez, Francisco ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b Service of Ophthalmology   (Spain)

^c Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fourier transform; Frequency analysis; Inferotemporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HISTOLOGY; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 75149156711     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523809990198     Document Type: Article

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