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. 1983 Sep;80(18):5776-8.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.80.18.5776.

Shape recognition and inferior temporal neurons

E L Schwartz, R Desimone, T D Albright, C G Gross

Shape recognition and inferior temporal neurons

E L Schwartz et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1983 Sep.

Abstract

Inferior temporal cortex plays an important role in shape recognition. To study the shape selectivity of single inferior temporal neurons, we recorded their responses to a set of shapes systematically varying in boundary curvature. Many inferior temporal neurons were selective for stimuli of specific boundary curvature and maintained this selectivity over changes in stimulus size or position. The method of describing boundary curvature was that of Fourier descriptors.

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