Distributed circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate visual recognition

• Published in: Trends in cognitive sciences Vol. 17; no. 5; pp. 210 - 219
• Main Authors: Behrmann, Marlene, Plaut, David C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Ltd 01.05.2013; Elsevier
• Subjects: Anatomical correlates of behavior; Animals; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain - physiology; Brain Mapping; Cognition - physiology; Computer Simulation; Functional Laterality; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Models, Neurological; Neurology; Perception; Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Recognition (Psychology) - physiology; Vision; Visual Perception - physiology; Human; Word; Hemispheric specialization; Language; Vision; Central nervous system; Perception; Cognition; Review; Face; Recognition; Encephalon

Increasingly, the neural mechanisms that support visual cognition are being conceptualized as a distributed but integrated system, as opposed to a set of individual, specialized regions that each subserve a particular visual behavior. Consequently, there is an emerging emphasis on characterizing the...