Functional neuroimaging studies of category specificity in object recognition: A critical review and meta-analysis

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 119-136

  Joseph, Jane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ACTIVATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; DISSOCIATION; FACE; FACE RECOGNITION; FUNCTION TEST; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; META ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0035383397     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.1.2.119     Document Type: Review

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