Medial Axis Shape Coding in Macaque Inferotemporal Cortex

Neuron

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1099-1113

  Hung, Chia Chun ^a,b   Carlson, Eric T ^a,b   Connor, Charles E ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84862646506     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.04.029     Document Type: Article

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