Cortical regions involved in perceiving object shape

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 3310-3318

  Kourtzi, Zoe ^a   Kanwisher, Nancy ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adaptation; Lateral and ventral occipital; Neuroimaging; Object recognition; Shape perception; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0034194288     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-09-03310.2000     Document Type: Article

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