Balanced increases in selectivity and tolerance produce constant sparseness along the ventral visual stream

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 10170-10182

  Rust, Nicole C ^a,b,c   Dicarlo, James J ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECOGNITION; RHESUS MONKEY; VISUAL AREA V4; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84864231611     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6125-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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