Differential sensitivity to words and shapes in ventral occipito-temporal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1604-1611

  Ben Shachar, Michal ^a   Dougherty, Robert F ^a   Deutsch, Gayle K ^a   Wandell, Brian A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

False fonts; Line drawings; Parametric fMRI; Phase scrambling; Word reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; ASSOCIATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; LANGUAGE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; CUES; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 34347256366     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl071     Document Type: Article

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