Neural correlates of object indeterminacy in art compositions

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 923-932

  Fairhall, Scott L ^a   Ishai, Alumit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Imagery; Memory; Paintings; Perception; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PAINTING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECALL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INDETERMINACY;

ADULT; ART; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE NET; PAINTINGS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47149084409     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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