The Visual What For Area: Words and pictures in the left fusiform gyrus

NeuroImage

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 334-342

  Starrfelt, Randi ^a   Gerlach, Christian ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b The Neurobiology Research Unit   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Functional imaging; Fusiform gyrus; Reading; Shape configuration; Visual recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION TEST; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846956459     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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