Attention to form or surface properties modulates different regions of human occipitotemporal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 713-731

  Cant, Jonathan S ^a   Goodale, Melvyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Color; Extrastriate cortex; Face perception; fMRI; Form; Object recognition; Scene perception; Texture; Ventral stream

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COLOR VISION TEST; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SUBICULUM; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33846984253     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhk022     Document Type: Article

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