How the brain learns to see objects and faces in an impoverished context

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6651, 1997, Pages 596-599

  Dolan, R J ^a,b   Fink, G R ^a   Rolls, E ^c   Booth, M ^c   Holmes, A ^a   Frackowiak, R S J ^a   Friston, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030863667     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39309     Document Type: Article

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