Visual object recognition: Do we know more now than we did 20 Years ago?

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 75-96

  Peissig, Jessie J ^a   Tarr, Michael J ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Category selectivity; Neural codes; Structural descriptions; View based; Visual features

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33847067902     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.58.102904.190114     Document Type: Review

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