PET reveals occipitotemporal pathway activation during elementary form perception in humans

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 503-510

  Beason Held, Lori L ^a   Purpura, Keith P ^b   Van Meter, John W ^a   Azari, Nina P ^a   Mangot, David J ^a   Optican, Lance M ^c   Mentis, Marc J ^a   Alexander, Gene E ^a   Grady, Cheryl L ^a   Horwitz, Barry ^a   Rapoport, Stanley I ^a   Schapiro, Mark B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrastriate; Frontal lobe; Hippocampus; Positron emission tomography; Striate; Visual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; TEMPORAL LOBE; VASCULARIZATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0032078746     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523898153117     Document Type: Article

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