How parallel is visual processing in the ventral pathway?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 363-370

  Rousselet, Guillaume A ^a   Thorpe, Simon J ^b   Fabre Thorpe, Michèle ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VENTRAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL OBJECT PERCEMPTION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

AMBIGUITY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NOISE; OPTICS; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECOGNITION; RETINA; RETINA FOVEA; REVIEW; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CONSCIOUSNESS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETINA; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4143133325     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2004.06.003     Document Type: Review

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