Mechanisms of top-down facilitation in perception of visual objects studied by fMRI

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2123-2133

  Eger, E ^a,b,d   Henson, R N ^a,c   Driver, J ^a   Dolan, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

fMRI; Fusiform; Object recognition; Parietal; Priming; Top down

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548039031     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl119     Document Type: Article

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