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Vision Research

Volume 41, Issues 10–11, May 2001, Pages 1409-1422
Vision Research

The lateral occipital complex and its role in object recognition

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Abstract

Here we review recent findings that reveal the functional properties of extra-striate regions in the human visual cortex that are involved in the representation and perception of objects. We characterize both the invariant and non-invariant properties of these regions and we discuss the correlation between activation of these regions and recognition. Overall, these results indicate that the lateral occipital complex plays an important role in human object recognition.

Keywords

Object recognition
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Human extrastriate cortex

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