Intelligent information loss: The coding of facial identity, head pose, and non-face information in the macaque face patch system

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 7069-7081

  Meyers, Ethan M ^a,b   Borzello, Mia ^b,c   Freiwald, Winrich A ^b,d   Tsao, Doris ^e  

^a HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Face processing; Face recognition; Macaque; Neural decoding; Population coding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; CLASSIFIER; DATA ANALYSIS; FACE PATCH SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIKE WAVE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HEAD MOVEMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MACACA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZATION; RHESUS MONKEY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; INTELLIGENCE; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84929379035     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3086-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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