References & Sources

A new look at recognizing what people see

The job of recognizing an object visually may be distributed across multiple regions of the brain rather than relying on one specialized area.

References:

Ishai, A., et al. 1999. Distributed representation of objects in the human ventral visual pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96(Aug. 3):9379.

Further Readings:

Bower, B. 1998. All fired up. Science News 153(Feb. 21):120.

Sources:

Alumit Ishai
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Mental Health
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition
Bethesda, MD 20892-1366

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 7, August 14, 1999, p. 102. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.