Shape configuration and category-specificity

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1247-1260

  Gerlach, Christian ^a,b   Law, Ian ^a   Paulson, Olaf B ^a  

^a The Neurobiology Research Unit   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Category specificity; Functional imaging; Object recognition; Perceptual differentiation; Shape configuration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; SHAPE CONFIGURATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33748767156     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.09.010     Document Type: Article

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