What Makes a Cell Face Selective? The Importance of Contrast

Neuron

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 567-581

  Ohayon, Shay ^a   Freiwald, Winrich A ^b   Tsao, Doris Y ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL POLARITY; CELL SELECTION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACE; FACIES; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FACE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84860670635     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.03.024     Document Type: Article

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