Adaptive shape coding for perceptual decisions in the human brain

Journal of Vision

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Kourtzi, Zoe ^a   Welchman, Andrew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorization; Object recognition; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 84930629188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/15.7.2     Document Type: Article

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