title: Sparse representation in the human medial temporal lobe.
abstract: Recent experiments characterized individual neurons in the human medial temporal lobe with remarkably selective, invariant, and explicit responses to images of famous individuals or landmark buildings. Here, we used a probabilistic analysis to show that these data are consistent with a sparse code in which neurons respond in a selective manner to a small fraction of stimuli.
authors.affiliation: Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA. waydo@cds.caltech.edu
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Waydo
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kraskov
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Quian Quiroga
authors.forename: Itzhak
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fried
authors.forename: Christof
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Koch
mesh_terms: D008959:Models, Neurological; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*