Distributed circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate visual recognition

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 210-219

  Behrmann, Marlene ^a   Plaut, David C ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL CONSTRAINTS; COMPUTATIONAL PROPERTIES; DISTRIBUTED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; NEURAL MECHANISMS; RIGHT HEMISPHERES; VISUAL RECOGNITION; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

FACE RECOGNITION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

HUMAN; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84876822198     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.03.007     Document Type: Review

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