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SUBMITTER: Maier A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1828131 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maier Alexander A Logothetis Nikos K NK Leopold David A DA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070316 13
Some neurons in the visual cortex alter their spiking rate according to the perceptual interpretation of an observed stimulus, rather than its physical structure alone. Experiments in monkeys have suggested that, although the proportion of neurons showing this effect differs greatly between cortical areas, this proportion remains similar across different stimuli. These findings have raised the intriguing questions of whether the same neurons always participate in the disambiguation of sensory pa ...[more]