What has fMRI taught us about object recognition?

Object Categorization: Computer and Human Vision Perspectives

Volumn 9780521887380, Issue , 2009, Pages 102-128

  Grill Spector, Kalanit ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

BRAIN ACTIVATION; CORTICAL ACTIVATION; CORTICAL REGIONS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS; NEURAL MECHANISMS; NONINVASIVE TECHNIQUE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84927090884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511635465.007     Document Type: Chapter

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