Acquisition and disruption of category specificity in the ventral visual stream: The case of late developing and vulnerable face-related cortex

Object Categorization: Computer and Human Vision Perspectives

Volumn 9780521887380, Issue , 2009, Pages 348-368

  Scherf, K Suzanne ^a   Behrmann, Marlene ^a   Humphreys, Kate ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES; DIVISION OF LABOR; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; HUMAN OBSERVERS; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; RECENT RESEARCHES; SEGREGATED REGIONS; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 79952997782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511635465.019     Document Type: Chapter

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