Cognitive neuroscience: trickle-down theories of vision.

The visual cortex is not a passive recipient of information: predictions about incoming stimuli are made based on experience, partial information and the consequences of inferences. A combination of imaging studies in the human brain has now led to the proposal that the orbitofrontal cortex is a key...

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Hauptverfasser: O'Shea, J, Walsh, V
Format: Journal article
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2006
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Zusammenfassung:The visual cortex is not a passive recipient of information: predictions about incoming stimuli are made based on experience, partial information and the consequences of inferences. A combination of imaging studies in the human brain has now led to the proposal that the orbitofrontal cortex is a key source of top-down predictions leading to object recognition.