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ReviewAIMS neuroscience2020

Themes of advanced information processing in the primate brain.

Robert Friedman

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Review in AIMS neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Robert FriedmanDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Here is a review of several empirical examples of information processing that occur in the primate cerebral cortex. These include visual processing, object identification and perception, information encoding, and memory. Also, there is a discussion of the higher scale neural organization, mainly theoretical, which suggests hypotheses on how the brain internally represents objects. Altogether they support the general attributes of the mechanisms of brain computation, such as efficiency, resiliency, data compression, and a modularization of neural function and their pathways. Moreover, the specific neural encoding schemes are expectedly stochastic, abstract and not easily decoded by theoretical or empirical approaches.

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cerebral cortexinformation encodingperceptionprimate brainvisual processing

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PMID33263076
PMCPMC7701368

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