DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES
9.10 and 9.100 COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
SPRING SEMESTER 1999
Friday, March 5
Vision: Perception of Faces and Objects
Nancy Kanwisher, BCS
Required Reading for Undergraduates and Graduate Students
Moscovitch, M., Winocur, G. and Behrmann, M. (1997). What Is Special
about Face Recognition? Nineteen Experiments on a Person with Visual
Object Agnosia and Dyslexia but Normal Face Recognition. Journal
of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9(5), pp. 555-604.
Epstein, R. and Kanwisher, N. (1998). A cortical representation of the
local visual environment. Nature, 392, pp. 598-601.
Farah, M. J. (1992). Is an Object an Object an Object? Cognitive
and Neuropsychological Investigations of Domain Specificity in Visual Object
Recognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, pp. 164-169.
Required Reading for Graduate Students (Recommended for Undergraduates)
Kanwisher, Epstein, Downing and Kourtzi (1998). Functional Neuroimaging
of Human Visual Recognition. To appear in Cabeza and Kingstone (Eds.),
Handbook on Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition (MIT Press).
Aguirre, G. K., Zarahn, E. and D'Esposito, M. (1998). Neural components
of topographical representation. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, 95, pp. 839-846.
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