caa a22 4500 397582196 CHVBK 20180308164910.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199605 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/cercor/6.3.498 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/cercor/6.3.498 Representational Capacity of Face Coding in Monkeys [Elektronische Daten] [L. F Abbott, Edmund T Rolls, Martin J. Tovee] We examine the distributed nature of the neural code for faces represented by the firing of visual neurons in the superior temporal sulcus of monkeys. Both information theory and neural decoding techniques are applied to determine how the capacity to represent faces depends on the number of coding neurons. Using a combination of experimental data and Monte Carlo simulations, we show that the information grows linearly and the capacity to encode stimuli grows exponentially with the number of neurons. By decoding firing rates, we determine that the responses of the 14 recorded neurons can distinguish between 20 face stimuli with approximately 80% accuracy. In general, we find that N neurons of this type can encode approximately 3(20.4N) different faces with 50% discrimination accuracy. These results indicate that the neural code for faces is highly distributed and capable of accurately representing large numbers of stimuli. © 1996 Oxford University Press Article nationallicence Abbott L. F. Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom aut Rolls Edmund T. Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom aut Tovee Martin J. Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom aut Cerebral Cortex Oxford University Press 6/3(1996-05), 498-505 1047-3211 6:3<498 1996 6 cercor https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/6.3.498 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/6.3.498 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Abbott L. F. Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rolls Edmund T. Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tovee Martin J. Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cerebral Cortex Oxford University Press 6/3(1996-05), 498-505 1047-3211 6:3<498 1996 6 cercor Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford