Class information predicts activation by object fragments in human object areas

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1189-1206

  Lerner, Yulia ^a,b   Epshtein, Boris ^a   Ullman, Shimon ^a   Malach, Rafael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 43449120190     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20082     Document Type: Article

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