Intelligent Information Loss: The Coding of Facial Identity, Head Pose, and Non-Face Information in the Macaque Face Patch System

Faces are a behaviorally important class of visual stimuli for primates. Recent work in macaque monkeys has identified six discrete face areas where most neurons have higher firing rates to images of faces compared with other objects (Tsao et al., 2006). While neurons in these areas appear to have d...

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Main Authors: Meyers, Ethan M., Borzello, Mia, Freiwald, Winrich A., Tsao, Doris
Other Authors: Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Society for Neuroscience 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100798