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Intelligent Information Loss: The Coding of Facial Identity, Head Pose, and Non-Face Information in the Macaque Face Patch System

Ethan M. Meyers, Mia Borzello, Winrich A. Freiwald and Doris Tsao
Journal of Neuroscience 6 May 2015, 35 (18) 7069-7081; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3086-14.2015
Ethan M. Meyers
1School of Cognitive Sciences, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002,
2The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139,
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Mia Borzello
2The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139,
3Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114,
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2The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139,
4Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, and
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5Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91126
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Intelligent Information Loss: The Coding of Facial Identity, Head Pose, and Non-Face Information in the Macaque Face Patch System
Ethan M. Meyers, Mia Borzello, Winrich A. Freiwald, Doris Tsao
Journal of Neuroscience 6 May 2015, 35 (18) 7069-7081; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3086-14.2015

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Ethan M. Meyers, Mia Borzello, Winrich A. Freiwald, Doris Tsao
Journal of Neuroscience 6 May 2015, 35 (18) 7069-7081; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3086-14.2015
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