Brain areas involved in rapid categorization of natural images: An event-related fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 11, Issue 6 I, 2000, Pages 634-643

  Fize, Denis ^a   Boulanouar, Kader ^b   Chatel, Yvan ^b   Ranjeva, Jean Philippe ^b   Fabre Thorpe, Michèle ^a   Thorpe, Simon ^a  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b CHU PURPAN   (France)

Author keywords

Attentional processes; Categorization; Competitive inhibition; Event related fMRI; Extra striate visual cortex; Natural scenes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBICULUM;

EID: 0033932070     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2000.0585     Document Type: Article

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