Fixed or Flexible? Study Shows Vision-Related Neurons Can Rapidly Switch Codes
April 22, 2026
April 22, 2026
PASADENA, California, April 22 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news:
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Fixed or Flexible? Study Shows Vision-Related Neurons Can Rapidly Switch Codes
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For many years, a dominant view in neuroscience was that neurons in the inferotemporal (IT) cortex-a critical center in the brain for the recognition of objects-represent the world through fixed tuning functions. Doris Tsao (BS '96), who has been studying . . .
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Fixed or Flexible? Study Shows Vision-Related Neurons Can Rapidly Switch Codes
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For many years, a dominant view in neuroscience was that neurons in the inferotemporal (IT) cortex-a critical center in the brain for the recognition of objects-represent the world through fixed tuning functions. Doris Tsao (BS '96), who has been studying . . .