The transition in the ventral stream from feature to real-world entity representations

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Orban, Guy A ^a   Zhu, Qi ^b   Vanduffel, Wim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

2D shape; 3D shape; Actions; Material properties; Retinotopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904891287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00695     Document Type: Article

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