A cortical mechanism for triggering top-down facilitation in visual object recognition

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 600-609

  Bar, Moshe ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FACILITATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0038066697     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892903321662976     Document Type: Article

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