Book contents
- Biological and Computer Vision
- Biological and Computer Vision
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction to the World of Vision
- 2 The Travels of a Photon
- 3 The Phenomenology of Seeing
- 4 Creating and Altering Visual Percepts through Lesions and Electrical Stimulation
- 5 Adventures into Terra Incognita
- 6 From the Highest Echelons of Visual Processing to Cognition
- 7 Neurobiologically Plausible Computational Models
- 8 Teaching Computers How to See
- 9 Toward a World with Intelligent Machines That Can Interpret the Visual World
- 10 Visual Consciousness
- Index
- References
6 - From the Highest Echelons of Visual Processing to Cognition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2021
Book contents
- Biological and Computer Vision
- Biological and Computer Vision
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction to the World of Vision
- 2 The Travels of a Photon
- 3 The Phenomenology of Seeing
- 4 Creating and Altering Visual Percepts through Lesions and Electrical Stimulation
- 5 Adventures into Terra Incognita
- 6 From the Highest Echelons of Visual Processing to Cognition
- 7 Neurobiologically Plausible Computational Models
- 8 Teaching Computers How to See
- 9 Toward a World with Intelligent Machines That Can Interpret the Visual World
- 10 Visual Consciousness
- Index
- References
Summary
The inferior temporal cortex (ITC) is the highest echelon within the visual stream concerned with processing visual shape information. The Felleman and Van Essen diagram (Chapter 1, Figure 1.5) places the hippocampus at the top. While visual responses can be elicited in the hippocampus, people with bilateral lesions to the hippocampus can still see very well. A famous example is a patient known as H. M., who had no known visual deficit but gave rise to the whole field of memory studies based on his inability to form new memories. The hippocampus is not a visual area and instead receives inputs from all sensory modalities (Chapter 4).
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- Biological and Computer Vision , pp. 112 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Further Reading
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• Hung, C. P.; Kreiman, G.; Poggio, T.; and DiCarlo, J. J. (2005). Fast read-out of object identity from macaque inferior temporal cortex. Science 310: 863–866.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
• Liu, H.; Agam, Y.; Madsen, J. R.; and Kreiman, G. (2009). Timing, timing, timing: fast decoding of object information from intracranial field potentials in human visual cortex. Neuron 62: 281–290.Google Scholar
• Logothetis, N. K., and Sheinberg, D. L. (1996). Visual object recognition. Annual Review of Neuroscience 19: 577–621.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed