Category-selective phase coding in the superior temporal sulcus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 19438-19443

  Turesson, Hjalmar K ^a   Logothetis, Nikos K ^b   Hoffman, Kari L ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Category coding; Primate; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATEGORY CODING; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PHASE CODING; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84869771763     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217012109     Document Type: Article

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