Processing multiple visual objects is limited by overlap in neural channels

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 8955-8960

  Cohen, Michael A ^a   Konkle, Talia ^a   Rhee, Juliana Y ^b   Nakayama, Ken ^a   Alvarez, George A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity limitations; Competition; Representational similarity; Visual cognition; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL POPULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PROCESSING; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

CAPACITY LIMITATIONS; COMPETITION; REPRESENTATIONAL SIMILARITY; VISUAL COGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FACE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84902593772     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317860111     Document Type: Article

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