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Inhibition in inferotemporal cortex: generating selectivity for object features

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Wang and colleagues demonstrate how local inhibition contributes to generating the remarkable specificity of responses of inferotemporal cortical neurons for complex stimulus features.

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Figure 1: Inferotemporal cortex is the last primarily visual area in the ventral or ‘object’ processing stream of the macaque brain.
Figure 2: A comparison of the role of inhibition in V1 versus IT.

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