Flexible coding for categorical decisions in the human brain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 45, 2007, Pages 12321-12330

  Li, Sheng ^a   Ostwald, Dirk ^a   Giese, Martin ^b,c   Kourtzi, Zoe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Form; Learning; Motion; Multivoxel pattern classification; Visual categorization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CATEGORIZATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 36049021770     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3795-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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