Task dependence of visual and category representations in prefrontal and inferior temporal cortices

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 48, 2014, Pages 16065-16075

  McKee, Jillian L ^a   Riesenhuber, Maximilian ^b   Miller, Earl K ^c   Freedman, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Inferior temporal cortex; Neurophysiology; Object recognition; Prefrontal cortex; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RHESUS MONKEY; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; ANIMAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84911927198     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1660-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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