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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 4, Issue 9, Pages 937-942Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nn0901-937
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- NINDS NIH HHS [R29 NS27296] Funding Source: Medline
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We assessed how the visual shape preferences of neurons in the inferior temporal cortex of awake, behaving monkeys generalized across three different stimulus transformations. Stimulus-preferences of particular cells among different polygon displays were correlated across reversed contrast polarity or mirror reversal, but not across figure-ground reversal. This corresponds with psychological findings on human shape judgments. Our results imply that neurons in inferior temporal cortex respond to components of visual shape derived only after figure-ground assignment of contours, not to the contours themselves.
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