The emergence of semantic categorization in early visual processing: ERP indices of animal vs. artifact recognition

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Proverbio, Alice M ^a,b   Del Zotto, Marzia ^a,b   Zani, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34247271388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-8-24     Document Type: Article

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