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Inferotemporal (IT) neurons in monkeys can respond to visual stimuli in a translation- and scale-invariant manner. In a neural circuit model based on a recently reported form of gain modulation by attention in area V4, the modulated visual responses of model V4 neurons produce object-centered receptive fields further down the visual processing stream, accounting for invariances exhibited by IT neurons.
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Research was supported by the Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at Brandeis University, the National Science Foundation (DMS-9503261), the W.M. Keck Foundation and by the Conacyt-Fulbright-IIE program.
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Salinas, E., Abbott, L.F. (1997). Attentional Gain Modulation as a Basis for Translation Invariance. In: Bower, J.M. (eds) Computational Neuroscience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9800-5_125
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