Mutual information of image fragments predicts categorization in humans: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 2010-2020

  Harel, Assaf ^a   Ullman, Shimon ^b   Epshtein, Boris ^b   Bentin, Shlomo ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Categorization; Event related potentials (ERPs); Features; Human performance; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; INFORMATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34250159089     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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