Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

The representation of colored objects in macaque color patches

  • Le Chang,
  • Pinglei Bao,
  • Doris Y. Tsao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01912-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Neurons in the inferotemporal cortex (IT) encode object identity; however, how object color is represented here is not well understood. Here the authors report that neurons from three color patches in macaque IT encode significant information regarding the hue and shape of objects in a hierarchical manner.