How plausible is a subcortical account of rapid visual recognition?

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Cauchoix, Maxime ^a,b   Crouzet, Sébastien M ^c,d,e  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Natural scenes; Rapid visual object recognition; Rapid visual processing; Subcortical; Ventral visual stream; Visual high road; Visual low road

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; EMOTIONALITY; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; OBJECT RELATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STRIATE CORTEX; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84933673615     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00039     Document Type: Article

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