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| Visual information processing and its brain mechanism |
| BAO Min1,2, HUANG Changbing1,2, WANG Li1,2, ZHANG Tao1,2, JIANG Yi1,2 |
1. Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;
2. Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China |
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Abstract: Vision is often recognized as one of the most important senses, as we get much useful information about the world around us from what we see. In this paper we systematically review the research progress on visual information processing. We first focus on the key questions about how the brain processes and represents visual information. Then, we discuss the recent work on visual plasticity, perceptual learning and bio-social information perception, offering a new understanding of visual information processing and its brain mechanism.
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Received: 01 August 2017
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