Neuronal mechanisms encoding global-to-fine information in inferior-temporal cortex

• Published in: Journal of computational neuroscience Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 85 - 103
• Main Authors: Matsumoto, Narihisa, Okada, Masato, Sugase-Miyamoto, Yasuko, Yamane, Shigeru
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Springer Nature B.V 01.01.2005
• Subjects: Face; Humans; Models, Neurological; Neurons - physiology; Temporal Lobe - cytology; Temporal Lobe - physiology; Time Factors; Visual Perception - physiology

Sugase et al. found that global information is represented at the initial transient firing of a single face-responsive neuron in inferior-temporal (IT) cortex, and that finer information is represented at the subsequent sustained firing. A feed-forward model and an attractor network are conceivable...