Mid-fusiform activation during object discrimination reflects the process of differentiating structural descriptions

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1711-1726

  Liu, Xun ^a   Steinmetz, Nicholas A ^a   Farley, Alison B ^a   Smith, Charles D ^a   Joseph, Jane E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 50649094907     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20116     Document Type: Article

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