Mechanisms of visual object recognition: Monkey and human studies

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 523-529

  Tanaka, Keiji ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MACACA; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0031426401     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(97)80032-3     Document Type: Article

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