The Lateral Occipital Complex and Its Role in Object Recognition

Overview

Journal Vision Res

Specialty Ophthalmology

Date 2001 Apr 27

PMID 11322983

Citations 502

Authors

K Grill-Spector

Z Kourtzi

N Kanwisher

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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.

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