Development of monotonic neuronal tuning in the monkey inferotemporal cortex through long-term learning of fine shape discrimination

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 748-757

  Suzuki, Wataru ^a,b   Tanaka, Keiji ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inferotemporal cortex; Macaque; Object recognition; Plasticity; Visual expertise

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COARSE DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FINE SHAPE DISCRIMINATION; HAPLORHINI; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; LEARNING; MALE; MONOTONIC NEURONAL TUNING; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MACACA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS;

EID: 79951488643     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07539.x     Document Type: Article

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