Signals in inferotemporal and perirhinal cortex suggest an untangling of visual target information

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1132-1139

  Pagan, Marino ^a   Urban, Luke S ^a   Wohl, Margot P ^a   Rust, Nicole C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISTRACTIBILITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; COGNITION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84880918745     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3433     Document Type: Article

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