Population coding of visual space: Comparison of spatial representations in dorsal and ventral pathways

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEBRUARY, 2011, Pages

  Sereno, Anne B ^a   Lehky, Sidney R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrastriate; Inferotemporal cortex; Lateral intraparietal cortex; Low dimensional manifolds; Monkey; Multidimensional scaling; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

EXTRASTRIATE; INFEROTEMPORAL CORTEX; LATERAL INTRAPARIETAL CORTEX; LOW-DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS; MONKEY; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; SPATIAL VISION;

CELLS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; VISION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR INFEROTEMPORAL CORTEX; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; LATERAL INTRAPARIETAL CORTEX; MACACA MULATTA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPATIAL VISION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84855245966     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2010.00159     Document Type: Article

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