Encoding of complexity, shape, and curvature by macaque infero-temporal neurons

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY 2011, 2011, Pages

  Kayaert, Greet ^a,b   Wagemans, Johan ^b   Vogels, Rufin ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Complexity; Infero temporal; Object recognition; Ventral stream

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INFEROTEMPORAL NEURON; MACACA; MALE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION;

EID: 84856200177     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00051     Document Type: Article

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