Article Information
- Received October 7, 2011
- Revision received December 25, 2011
- Accepted January 27, 2012
- First published March 14, 2012.
- Version of record published March 14, 2012.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: H.M.S., S.T., T.D., and I.F. designed research; H.M.S. and S.T. performed research; H.M.S. analyzed data; H.M.S., S.T., T.D., and I.F. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received October 7, 2011.
- Revision received December 25, 2011.
- Accepted January 27, 2012.
This work was supported by grants to I.F. from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (23240047, 23135522), Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology of Japan Science and Technology Agency, Center for Information and Neural Networks, and the Takeda Science Foundation. We thank H. Kumano and K. Umeda for help with data collection; Y. Okazaki, S. Aoki, and Y. Shinomoto for technical assistance; and Y. Shinomoto for excellent animal care. A monkey was obtained from the National Bio-resource Project.
The authors declare no financial conflicts of interest.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Ichiro Fujita, Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan. fujita{at}fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp
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