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Eyes of the world be free; you have nothing to lose but your chains

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DiCarlo and Maunsell show that neuronal responses in the inferotemporal cortex remain the same whether an animal is fixating or making eye movements. This reassures us that measurements made under reduced conditions generalize to real-world situations.

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Figure 1: Comparison between typical visual neurophysiology stimulus and the more complex natural viewing situation.
Figure 2: A time sequence of events in a single epoch within a visual search trial in the DiCarlo and Maunsell experiment.

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