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Columnar Organization in the Inferotemporal Cortex

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Extrastriate Cortex in Primates

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A key function of the primate brain is recognition of objects from their visual images. The recognition process is flexible, tolerating marked changes in images due to changes in illumination, viewing angle, and pose of the object. Moreover, the primate visual system processes images of novel objects based on previous visual experience of similar objects. Generalization may be an intrinsic property of the primate visual system. In this review the neural organization essential for these flexible aspects of visual object recognition in TE of the inferotemporal cortex is discussed.

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  1. Department of Neurology, 2007 RCP, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, 52242-1053, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

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Tanaka, K. (1997). Columnar Organization in the Inferotemporal Cortex. In: Rockland, K.S., Kaas, J.H., Peters, A. (eds) Extrastriate Cortex in Primates. Cerebral Cortex, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9625-4_11

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