Statistics of visual responses in primate inferotemporal cortex to object stimuli

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1097-1117

  Lehky, Sidney R ^a,b   Kiani, Roozbeh ^c,d   Esteky, Hossein ^c,e   Tanaka, Keiji ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

Extrastriate; Heavy tails; Monkey; Object recognition; Pareto distribution; Population coding; Power law; Selectivity; Sparseness; Stable distribution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CELL POPULATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; MODEL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RESPONSE MAGNITUDE; RESPONSE RANK; SAMPLE SIZE; SELECTIVITY; SPARSENESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80052564667     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00990.2010     Document Type: Article

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