A Simple Common Contexts Explanation for the Development of Abstract Letter Identities

Neural Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1277-1289

  Polk, Thad A ^a   Farah, Martha J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

FORM PERCEPTION; LANGUAGE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031571330     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.1997.9.6.1277     Document Type: Article

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