Humans are able to recognize shapes even when they are partially occluded by another
pattern. We determined whether inferior temporal (IT) units of awake rhesus monkey remain …

Primates are able to recognize a particular object despite major differences in the retinal
images of the object. Inferior temporal cortex is suggested to be involved in this invariant …

We used rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) to examine the tuning of macaque inferior
temporal cortical (IT) neurons to five sets of 25 shapes each that varied systematically along …

Missal et al. observed that the responses of inferior temporal (IT) neurons to a shape were
reduced markedly when this shape partially overlapped a larger second shape, suggesting …

Neurons in the monkey inferior temporal cortex (IT) have been shown to respond to shapes
defined by luminance, texture, or motion. In the present study, we determined whether IT …

Background: The inferior temporal cortex (IT) of the monkey has long been known to play an
essential role in visual object recognition. Damage to this area results in severe deficits in …

We determined the degree to which the response modulation of macaque inferior temporal
(IT) neurons corresponds to perceptual versus physical shape similarities. IT neurons were …

We assessed how the visual shape preferences of neurons in the inferior temporal cortex of
awake, behaving monkeys generalized across three different stimulus transformations …

It has long been known that macaque inferior temporal (IT) neurons tend to fire more
strongly to some shapes than to others, and that different IT neurons can show markedly …

The primate brain successfully recognizes objects, even when they are partially occluded.
To begin to elucidate the neural substrates of this perceptual capacity, we measured the …