Object recognition: seeing us seeing shapes.
Our understanding of the neural basis of object recognition is based primarily on work with non-human primates. The problem has recently been addressed in humans using functional magnetic resonance imaging; new results indicate that the lateral occipital complex plays an important role in human object recognition.
Mazer
J A
JA
Department of Psychology, University of California, 3210 Tolman Hall #1650, University of California at Berkeley, California, 94720-1650, USA. mazer@socrates.berkeley.edu
Gallant
J L
JL
D003463:Cues; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*