A sequence of object-processing stages revealed by fMRI in the human occipital lobe

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 316-328

  Grill Spector, Kalanit ^a   Kushnir, Tammar ^b   Hendler, Talma ^b   Edelman, Shimon ^c   Itzchak, Yacov ^b   Malach, Rafael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Form perception; Object recognition; Visual areas; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACACA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0031928416     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0193(1998)6:4<316::AID-HBM9>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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