Sparse representation in the human medial temporal lobe.
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چکیده
Recent experiments characterized individual neurons in the human medial temporal lobe with remarkably selective, invariant, and explicit responses to images of famous individuals or landmark buildings. Here, we used a probabilistic analysis to show that these data are consistent with a sparse code in which neurons respond in a selective manner to a small fraction of stimuli.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
دوره 26 40 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006