The characteristics and limits of rapid visual categorization.

Visual categorization appears both effortless and virtually instantaneous, the study by Thorpe et al. (1996) was the first to estimate the processing time necessary to perform fast visual categorization of animals in briefly flashed (20ms) natural photographs. They observed a large differential EEG...

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Main Author: Michèle eFabre-Thorpe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00243/full