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SUBMITTER: Sharpee TO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3710868 | biostudies-other | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130624 28
Humans can rapidly recognize a multitude of objects despite differences in their appearance. The neural mechanisms that endow high-level sensory neurons with both selectivity to complex stimulus features and "tolerance" or invariance to identity-preserving transformations, such as spatial translation, remain poorly understood. Previous studies have demonstrated that both tolerance and selectivity to conjunctions of features are increased at successive stages of the ventral visual stream that med ...[more]