Mistaking a house for a face: Neural correlates of misperception in healthy humans

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 500-508

  Summerfield, Christopher ^a   Egner, Tobias ^b   Mangels, Jennifer ^a   Hirsch, Joy ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrastriate; Misperception; Neural correlates predictive coding; Visual regions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; SUBICULUM; UNCERTAINTY; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33644909093     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhi129     Document Type: Article

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