Seeing with profoundly deactivated mid-level visual areas: Non-hierarchical functioning in the human visual cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1687-1703

  Gilaie Dotan, Sharon ^a   Perry, Anat ^b   Bonneh, Yoram ^a   Malach, Rafael ^a   Bentin, Shlomo ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cortical selectivity; ERPs; FMRI; Prosopagnosia; Visual agnosia; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; READING; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGNOSIA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67649449011     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn205     Document Type: Article

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