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So many pixels, so little time

Nature Neuroscience volume 11, pages 1243–1244 (2008)Cite this article

Previous work has focused on neuronal encoding of two-dimensional shapes. Using a new search algorithm and three-dimensional object primitives, a study in this issue identifies potential subunits of complex object recognition.

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Figure 1: Range of stimuli used to characterize cortical visual representations.

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