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Science 14 May 1993:
Vol. 260. no. 5110, pp. 995 - 997
DOI: 10.1126/science.8493538
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Science, Vol 260, Issue 5110, 995-997
Copyright © 1993 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Cue-invariant shape selectivity of macaque inferior temporal neurons

G Sary, R Vogels, and GA Orban

Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, Faculteit der Geneeskunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

The perception of shape is independent of the size and position of the shape and also of the visual cue that defines it. The same shape can be recognized whether defined by a difference in luminance, by motion, or by texture. Experiments showed that the shape selectivity of individual cells in the macaque inferior temporal cortex did not vary with the size and position of a shape and also did not vary with the visual cue used to define the shape. This cue invariance was true for static luminance and texture cues as well as for relative motion cues--that is, for cues that are processed in ventral and dorsal visual pathways. The properties of these inferior temporal cells meet the demands of cue-invariant shape coding.


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