Neural mechanisms of object recognition

Maximilian Riesenhuber; Tomaso Poggio

doi:10.1016/s0959-4388(02)00304-5

Neural mechanisms of object recognition

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2002 Apr;12(2):162-8. doi: 10.1016/s0959-4388(02)00304-5.

Authors

Maximilian Riesenhuber¹, Tomaso Poggio

Affiliation

¹ McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Biological and Computational Learning and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02142, USA. max@ai.mit.edu

PMID: 12015232
DOI: 10.1016/s0959-4388(02)00304-5

Abstract

Single-unit recordings from behaving monkeys and human functional magnetic resonance imaging studies have continued to provide a host of experimental data on the properties and mechanisms of object recognition in cortex. Recent advances in object recognition, spanning issues regarding invariance, selectivity, representation and levels of recognition have allowed us to propose a putative model of object recognition in cortex.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Frontal Lobe / physiology*
Haplorhini
Humans
Neural Networks, Computer
Recognition, Psychology / physiology*
Temporal Lobe / physiology*
Visual Cortex / physiology*
Visual Perception / physiology