How Visual Cortex Recognizes Objects: The Tale of the Standard Model

A host of experimental data has been accumulating on the properties and mechanisms of object recognition in cortex. We review the main findings, and summarize them using a quantitative, biologically plausible, Standard Model. The model is a tool to interpret and understand the available data, and generate questions and predictions for new experiments.

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