How distributed is visual category information in human occipito-temporal cortex? An fMRI study

Neuron

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1157-1165

  Spiridon, Mona ^a   Kanwisher, Nancy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0037068827     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00877-2     Document Type: Article

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