The timing of visual object categorization

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JUL, 2011, Pages

  Mack, Michael L ^a   Palmeri, Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Object categorization; Object recognition; Reaction times; Temporal dynamics; Time course

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861194153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00165     Document Type: Review

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