Zusammenfassung
Behavioral studies with parameterized shapes have shown that the similarities
among these complex stimuli can be represented using a low number
of dimensions. Using psychophysical measurements and single-cell
recordings in macaque inferotemporal (IT) cortex, we found an agreement
between low-dimensional parametric configurations of shapes and the
representation of shape similarity at the behavioral and neuronal
level. The shape configurations, computed from both the perceived
and neuron-based similarities, revealed a low number of dimensions
and contained the same stimulus order as the parametric configurations.
However, at a metric level, the behavioral and neural representations
deviated consistently from the parametric configurations. These findings
suggest an ordinally faithful but metrically biased representation
of shape similarity in IT.
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