Object decoding with attention in inferior temporal cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 8850-8855

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Meyers, Ethan M ^a   Bichot, Narcisse P ^a   Serre, Thomas ^a,b   Poggio, Tomaso A ^a   Desimone, Robert ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Macaque; Neural coding; Population coding; Readout; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; HAPLORHINI; NEURONS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79957714512     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100999108     Document Type: Article

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