Categorization Training Results in Shape- and Category-Selective Human Neural Plasticity

Neuron

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 891-903

  Jiang, Xiong ^a   Bradley, Evan ^a   Rini, Regina A ^a   Zeffiro, Thomas ^b   VanMeter, John ^a   Riesenhuber, Maximilian ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSBIO; SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33847610320     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.02.015     Document Type: Article

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