Learning to see biological motion: Brain activity parallels behavior

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1669-1679

  Grossman, Emily D ^a   Blake, Randolph ^b   Kim, Chai Youn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 10144254435     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929042568569     Document Type: Article

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