Nature Communications (May 2018)

Representation of multiple objects in macaque category-selective areas

  • Pinglei Bao,
  • Doris Y. Tsao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04126-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Inferotemporal cortex (IT) neurons respond to specific objects but the precise neural mechanisms for clutter-invariant representation is not known. Here the authors show that face and body patch IT neurons respond to multiple objects with winner-take-all, contralateral-take-all or weighted averaging depending on the stimulus properties.